In a paper published in this week’s PLOS ONE, Dr Kuo-Fen Lee and his colleagues at The Salk Institute describe how a protein named P45 may yield insight into a possible molecular mechanism to promote rerouting for spinal cord healing and…
Month: July 2013
Researchers ready to try deep brain stimulation to reduce pain in spinal cord injured patients
Borrowing a treatment strategy proven to work for Parkinson’s disease, a team of researchers led by Ian D. Hentall, Ph.D. and Jonathan Jagid, M.D. from The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, expect to begin a clinical trial this fall to…
Neuralstem's cells induce improvement in acute spinal cord injury rats
According to US researchers, medical research that uses animals to test therapies for human central nervous system disorders is often biased, claiming positive results and then failing in human trials. The paper states, “Possible explanations for this failure include differences in…
Stem cell tourism article featuring Megan Munsie, of Stem Cells Australia.
More and more Australians are travelling to overseas stem cell clinics for treatment, but at what cost to their back pocket – and their health? Associate Professor Megan Munsie, of Stem Cells Australia, a collaboration between several of the nation’s…
Asubio broadens inclusion criteria for spinal cord injury clinical trial
Asubio Pharmaceuticals Inc has now opened its clinical trial for the SUN13837 molecule to include AIS A, B and C injury to the cervical spine. The company is currently working with 45 acute trauma centers throughout the United States and Canada and…
Rapid tissue loss seen within 40 days of spinal cord injury
The rate and extent of damage to the spinal cord and brain following spinal cord injury have long been a mystery. Now, a joint research effort between the University of Zurich, University Hospital Balgrist and colleagues from University College London…
ChinaSCInet spinal cord injuries stem cell clinical trials
”This will convince the doctors of the world that they do not need to tell patients ‘you will never walk again’,”US-based Dr Wise Young, chief executive officer of ChinaSCINet. After progress in a second round of tests using stem…
Olfactory ensheathing cells treatment improves neurological function in SCI patients
A team of researchers in Poland who treated three of six paraplegics with spinal cord injury using transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells found that the three treated patients showed neurological improvement and no adverse effects while the three control patients who did not…