We are very grateful to the proprietors, Kerry and Christine Buttsworth, and their customers at the Wiggly Tail Pork Shop and Butchery in Laurieton NSW, who regularly donate. To date they have raised over $5500. Visit The Wiggly Tail
Month: April 2012
Ballyus Designs and Ballyus Propagators
The Leggetts of South West Rocks NSW have two businesses: Ballyus Designs – beautiful individually crafted costume jewellery Ballyus Propagators – frangipanis, bauhinias, butterfly trees and poincianas. All their proceeds are donated to find a cure for the paralysis caused…
Helping nerves regrow with micro-moulded nerve guidance conduits
“If successful we anticipate these scaffolds will not just be applicable to peripheral nerve injury, but could also be developed for other types of nerve damage too. The technique of laser direct writing may ultimately allow production of scaffolds that…
Bone marrow holds key to stem cell breakthrough
University of Western researchers are using human bone marrow stem cells to promote an endogenous host response after spinal cord injury, by isolating stromal cells found in a patient’s own bone marrow and transplanting them back into the injury site…
Career Development Fellowship awarded to Dr Marc Ruitenberg
SpinalCure Australia has awarded a prestigious Career Development Fellowship to Dr Marc Ruitenberg, a lecturer in Neuroanatomy & Neuroscience at the School of Biomedical Sciences and Affiliate Research Fellow of The Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland. This…
Neuronal stem cells generated directy from skin cells
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, have broken new ground by reprogramming skin cells from mice into neurons without regressing the cells through a pluripotent stage. The skin cells were reprogrammed directly into multipotent…
New cost-effective technique for large-scale stem cell production
Canadian researchers have developed a new technique for growing stem cells that may make possible cost-effective, large-scale stem cell manufacturing and research. Although stem cells are widely used for the testing of new drugs, researchers have always faced difficulties manufacturing…
New cost-effective technique for large-scale stem cell production
Canadian researchers have developed a new technique for growing stem cells that may make possible cost-effective, large-scale stem cell manufacturing and research. Although stem cells are widely used for the testing of new drugs, researchers have always faced difficulties manufacturing…