Rapid treatment with a new anti-inflammatory could have a major impact on recovery from spinal cord injury, University of Queensland researchers have found.
Month: April 2015
Mind-control exoskeleton gives unprecedented paralysis recovery
An exoskeleton that enables movement and provides tactile feedback has helped eight paralysed people regain sensation and move previously paralysed muscles. The exoskeleton feeds sensory information to its wearer, which seems to have partially reawakened their nervous system. When Nicolelis reassessed…
Chinese repair cord with engineered cells and scaffold
Scientists at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China report that rats with 2mm gaps removed from their spinal cords (at T10) recovered significantly when a special scaffold seeded with engineered stem cells was implanted at the injury site. The treatment is not…
New sites for InVivo's neurospinal scaffold trial.
InVivo Therapeutics has announced three new sites have been added to the company’s ongoing pilot study of its Neuro-Spinal Scaffold in patients with acute spinal cord injury (SCI): Keck Hospital of University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, CA UC Davis Medical Center…
Travel Grant awarded to Chris Turner
Working under Dr Lachlan Thompson at the Florey Institute, Christopher Turner is in the third year of his PhD studies. His project involves stem cell based therapies for the regrowth of neurons in spinal cord injury focusing on the survival and integration…
APOSEC protein concentrate reduces damage in acute SCI
In tests conducted on animals, the APOSEC protein concentrate extracted from white blood cells has reduced the severity of damage after an accident involving spinal cord injuries when the agent was injected in the abdominal cavity 40 minutes after the…
1,000 year old remedy kills MRSA superbug
Take cropleek and garlic, of both equal quantities, pound them well together… take wine and bullocks gall, mix with the leek… let it stand nine days in the brass vessel… This ninth-century Anglo-Saxon remedy for eye infections has been found to…