UCLA researchers discovered that a diet enriched with a popular omega-3 fatty acid and an ingredient of curry spice preserved walking ability in rats with spinal cord injury. Published June 26 in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, the findings suggest that…
Month: June 2012
Transforming fibroblasts into multipotent neural stem cells with a single factor
A team from California has managed to produce neural stem cells from fibroblasts (found in connective tissue) in a single step using the factor Sox2. Implanted iNSCs can survive and integrate in mouse brains and, unlike iPSC-derived NSCs, do not…
Rats walking again after spinal cord injury
Neuroprosthetics and robot rehabilitation wake up the ‘spinal brain’ and restore voluntary movement This breakthrough result from the laboratory of Grégoire Courtine at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL) in Switzerland was published today in Science Magazine. In this study…