A vendor informed researchers in Stockholm, Sweden that they had been shipped rats infected with rat parvovirus type 1a (RPV-1a). They compared these rats with uninfected ones and found that, after spinal cord injury, the RPV-1a-infected rats had significantly better hind limb…
Month: December 2015
Research Roundup December 2015
Four broad areas of research are showing the most promise for spinal cord injury treatments. The frontrunners in each are being tested in people: Pharmacological treatments These include drug therapies which, if administered soon after injury will hopefully reduce the…
InVivo announces a new injectable combination of biomaterials and neural stem cells
InVivo Therapeutics will focus its research efforts for chronic SCI on Bioengineered Neural Trails™. These are injectable combinations of biomaterials and neural stem cells (NSCs) delivered using minimally-invasive surgical instrumentation and techniques to create trails across the chronic injury site. “Our goal…