Biomaterial scaffold implanted after spinal cord injury promotes nerve regrowth in rat model

Researchers from the Mayo Clinic in New York have demonstrated that implantation of a biomaterial scaffold designed to bridge the lesion caused by a spinal cord injury improves nerve regeneration. Seeding the scaffold with Schwann cells did not provide a…

InVivo Therapeutics reports significant improvement of second and third patients implanted with neuro-spinal scaffold

Just one-month after implantation of InVivo’s Neuro-Spinal Scaffold, the third study patient improved from a complete AIS A spinal cord injury to an incomplete AIS B spinal cord injury. The patient has regained sacral sensation with improved bladder function. The…