On 14th September 2011 Professor Hans Keirstead visited Edinburgh to talk about the progress that has been made in developing treatments to limit the paralysis and loss of sensation caused by a...

The Symposium at Austin in September 2011 drew stem cell researchers from around the world. Dr Wise Young was one of the speakers and also gave an encouraging prediction about the availability of...

From EuroStemCell comes this clear, easy to follow video using hand drawn diagrams to explain the role of stem cells in our body.

It was my first trip out of hospital after being flown down from PNG with a C4/5 injury. This was 1984 and I was being taken to buy an electric typewriter which I would have to operate with a mouth...

Closes 30 September 2011 The Spinal Cord Injury Network is calling for applications for its Capacity Building Initiative. Up to $320,000 is available as seed funding to support the development of new ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) May 10 - U.S. doctors have begun treating a second patient injected with human embryonic stem cells in the spine as part of a landmark Geron Corp clinical trial testing the cells in ...

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 From CIRM Stem cell research updates We've posted quite a bit about the Geron trial testing an embryonic stem cell-derived therapy for spinal cord injury. Now Palo Alto-based...

By Deena Beasley LOS ANGELES (Reuters Health) Nov 15 - StemCells Inc has filed for Swiss regulatory approval for the first clinical trial of its nerve stem cells in patients with spinal cord injuries ...

'The Australian' November 06, 2010 A clinical trial in Atlanta, Georgia, is proof that informed public debate is the key to medical advance IF I'm honest, my first reaction to recent reports that the ...

HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times New Delhi, October 31, 2010 The Indian Spinal Injuries Centre has got a go-ahead from the government to carry human trials using bone marrow transplantation in...

The IRP Foundation Zurich / Geneva invites applications for IRP Postdoctoral Fellowship in the field of: Basic research in one or several aspects of CNS & spinal cord lesions and repair or Clinical...

By Laird Harrison SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Health) Oct 19 - The experimental Rho protein inhibitor Cethrin helped heal cervical spinal cord injuries in a phase I/II trial, researchers said at the...

October 12, 2010 — The first person treated with embryonic stem cells is an Atlanta patient paralyzed by a recent spine injury. The Geron Corp. GRNOPC1 stem cells come from embryos left over after in ...

Neurology Today 16 September 2010; Volume 10(18); pp 24-25 Deletion of a single gene allows axons to grow through a complete spinal cord injury, and to do so in abundance. The discovery, called...

TCA Cellular Therapy, a privately-held company whose mission is to create and accelerate adult stem cell therapies, has commenced recruitment for its Phase I clinical trial in the USA using...

On Friday 30 July 2010, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lifted the clinical hold it had placed on Geron's proposed clinical trial using cells, made from human embryonic stem cells, to...

Date: 16/08/2010 Researchers from the University of Western Sydney are calling for men and women who live with a spinal cord injury (SCI) to come forward and share their stories. Dr Kathryn Nicholson ...

by Maggie Fox WASHINGTON (Reuters) Apr 21 - Shutting off a single gene can help stop the cascade of damage that can paralyze people with spinal cord injuries, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday....

Spinal Cord Injury Network USA (SCINetUSA) was established in Texas March 2009. Dr Wise Young announced the launching of the Spinal Cord Injury Network USA (SCINetUSA) to test treatments for chronic...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Apr 21 - Shutting off a single gene can help stop the cascade of damage that can paralyze people with spinal cord injuries, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. They propose...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2009) Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved in rats even when...

The Medical Energy Rebate is for eligible NSW customers who are medically diagnosed with thermoregulatory dysfunction. This means they have a significant loss of capacity to control their body...

by Janis Kelly July 30, 2009 Brilliant Blue G (BBG), a dye used to visualize transparent tissues in eye surgery and a cousin to the food additive that makes Gatorade blue, is also a candidate for...

27 July 2009 The Victorian Neutrauma Initiatives (VNI) released a landmark report that reveals for the first time the high cost of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) in...

Hope—and anxiety—run high as the first clinical trial of embryonic-stem-cell therapy begins this summer. by Claudia Kalb | NEWSWEEK Published Mar 21, 2009

The recent announcement that stem cell treatment of spinal injury was finally moving from experimentation on rats to an actual human trial is the news that many people affected by spinal cord injury...

Combined news services March 10, 2009 President Barack Obama yesterday honored the work and spirit of late actor Christopher Reeve, who became a tireless advocate for embryonic stem cell research...