As part of their phase I/II clinical trial in chronic spinal cord injury, StemCells, Inc. has for the first time transplanted HuCNS-SC® neural stem cells into a patient with an incomplete spinal cord injury. This is the first patient in…
Month: September 2012
Stem cell implantations bring back feeling for paralysed patients
Positive interim results from StemCells Inc’s phase 1 study. In this initial safety trial, three patients with complete injuries had 20 million neural stem cells implanted directly into the spinal cord, something that has never been done before. Before treatment,…
Neural stem cells used to regenerate axons at spinal cord injury site
Research published in Cell has shown that stem cells can overcome inhibitory factors in the injured spinal cord and grow to form connections over long distances. The scientists embedded neural stem cells in a matrix of fibrin (a protein key…