Category: Research (page 33)

Researchers from Imperial College London and the Hertie Institute, University of Tuebingen have identified a possible mechanism for re-growing damaged nerve fibres in the central nervous system (CNS). Published in Nature Communications, the research highlights the role of a protein…

Another study, this time from the University of Washington, Seattle USA, shows the promise of intraspinal electrical stimulation for treating spinal cord injury. Here the focus was on cervical injuries and the cord was stimulated above the lesion in contrast…

Scientists from Keio University, Japan, found that the combination of a drug laced silicon implant and treadmill rehabilitation shows promise for treating spinal injuries in rats. The results suggest the combination worked better than the drug alone. The drug released…

A Japanese scientist called on Monday for his own headline-grabbing study on stem cells to be withdrawn from publication, saying its findings had now been thrown into too much doubt. The research – hailed when it came out in January as…

Charles Vacanti at Harvard Medical School and his colleagues say they have taken human fibroblast cells and tested several environmental stressors on them in an attempt to recreate human STAP cells. He won’t reveal what type of stressors were applied but…

A consortium of 26 partners has been formed to establish the “European Bank for induced pluripotent Stem Cells” (EBiSC) with support from the IMI.  The EBISC iPS cell bank will act as a central storage and distribution facility for human…

New Johns Hopkins research has found that slips and falls – particularly among the elderly – has overtaken motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of traumatic spinal cord injuries in the U.S. The number of serious spinal cord injuries…

Previous studies have shown that multiple stem cell implantations might assist adults suffering from complete spinal cord injuries (SCI). Now a Polish study published in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine shows for the first time that children with SCI might benefit,…

A research team at Harvard University has conducted a preliminary study on monkeys paralyzed by spinal cord injuries using a newly found technique for creating pluripotent stem cells (“stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency” or STAP cells) The same team is also…

Japanese scientists, in collaboration with Professor Vacanti of Harvard, Boston, report that they have created pluripotent stem cells by simply bathing blood cells in a weakly acidic solution for half an hour, triggering a remarkable reversion to the cells’ original…