The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis has received the green light from the U.S. FDA to proceed with a Phase I clinical trial to evaluate the safety of autologous human Schwann cell transplantation for chronic spinal cord injuries. The team…
Month: October 2014
InVivo Therapeutics announces first subject enrolled in pilot trial for chronic spinal cord injury
The first subject has been enrolled in the pilot study of InVivo’s Neuro-Spinal Scaffold for the treatment of complete traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, AZ. The objective of the pilot study is to evaluate…
Two studies show stem cells beneficial in SCI
Two studies recently published in Cell Transplantation reveal that cell transplantation may be an effective treatment for spinal cord injury. Researchers in Spain harvested ependymal progenitor cells (stem cells found in adult tissues surrounding the ependymal canal of the spinal…
First patient treated In Neuralstem Phase I spinal cord injury stem cell trial
Neuralstem, Inc. has announced that the first patient has been treated in the Phase I trial testing NSI-566 human neural stem cells in the treatment of chronic spinal cord injury at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Read more…
StemCells, Inc. begins Phase II clinical trial in cervical spinal cord injury
Earlier this year, the StemCells Inc. completed enrollment in an open-label Phase I/II clinical trial in thoracic SCI using its proprietary HuCNS-SC® platform of human neural stem cells to treat 8 patients. Half of the patients transplanted had significant post-transplant…
Breathing 100% oxygen a few hours a day reduces neuropathic pain in spinal cord injuries
A Chinese study published in the journal Nature reports that patients who were exposed to pure oxygen via a non-rebreathing reservoir mask, for 1 or 4 h daily for 2 weeks, had reduced levels of neuropathic pain when compared to a control group.…
Restoration of function after spinal cord injury
Artificial connection from the brain to locomotion centre bypasses damaged spinal cord
A Japanese research group has successfully made an artificial connection from the brain to the locomotion center, bypassing the spinal cord with a computer interface. This research, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, allowed subjects to perform a walking-like behavior…
Australian Government investment in science reaches 30-year low
Science and innovation spending has fallen to 2.2 per cent of total budget expenditure this year, the lowest share since 1984-5, a Fairfax Media analysis has found. This is the third consecutive year government R&D spending has fallen as a share…