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Month: August 2018

Month: August 2018

An update from the frontier of spinal cord injury research

Posted on: August 26, 2018 Categorized in: News, Research
The 3rd SpinalCure Australia Symposium on Frontiers in SCI Research was held 24 August 2018 at the Queensland Brain Institute. SCA believes strongly that uniting scientific minds to share research outcomes and progress can help accelerate the path to the…
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3D-printed nerve stem cells could help repair damaged spinal cord

Posted on: August 13, 2018 Categorized in: Research
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have designed a device that could reconnect the damaged spinal cord. A silicone guide, covered in 3D- printed neuronal stem cells, can be implanted into the injury site, where it grows new connections between…
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Human stem cells may provide new scalable source of replacement cells for spinal cord injury

Posted on: August 08, 2018 Categorized in: Research
Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have successfully created spinal cord neural stems (NSCs) from puripotent stem cells (hPSCs) that differentiate into a diverse population of cells capable of dispering throighout the spinal cord and…
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