A clinical trial is underway by the US based, Japanese owned firm Asubio for their SUN13837 molecule. This trial is for acute (new) cervical injuries. They are hoping for an incredible 2-level improvement in quadriplegic patients. The difference this would…
Category: Research (page 43)
FDA meeting brings promising spinal cord injury treatment closer to human trials
InVivo Therapeutics have had promising results using on bipolymer scaffolding to treat spinal cord injury in animal models (See published results). (March 2012: interview with InVivo CEO). Final FDA approval is still required. Read more
Helping nerves regrow with micro-moulded nerve guidance conduits
“If successful we anticipate these scaffolds will not just be applicable to peripheral nerve injury, but could also be developed for other types of nerve damage too. The technique of laser direct writing may ultimately allow production of scaffolds that…
Bone marrow holds key to stem cell breakthrough
University of Western researchers are using human bone marrow stem cells to promote an endogenous host response after spinal cord injury, by isolating stromal cells found in a patient’s own bone marrow and transplanting them back into the injury site…
Career Development Fellowship awarded to Dr Marc Ruitenberg
SpinalCure Australia has awarded a prestigious Career Development Fellowship to Dr Marc Ruitenberg, a lecturer in Neuroanatomy & Neuroscience at the School of Biomedical Sciences and Affiliate Research Fellow of The Queensland Brain Institute at The University of Queensland. This…
Neuronal stem cells generated directy from skin cells
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Münster, Germany, have broken new ground by reprogramming skin cells from mice into neurons without regressing the cells through a pluripotent stage. The skin cells were reprogrammed directly into multipotent…
New cost-effective technique for large-scale stem cell production
Canadian researchers have developed a new technique for growing stem cells that may make possible cost-effective, large-scale stem cell manufacturing and research. Although stem cells are widely used for the testing of new drugs, researchers have always faced difficulties manufacturing…
New cost-effective technique for large-scale stem cell production
Canadian researchers have developed a new technique for growing stem cells that may make possible cost-effective, large-scale stem cell manufacturing and research. Although stem cells are widely used for the testing of new drugs, researchers have always faced difficulties manufacturing…
CNS stem cells artificially derived from connective tissue of mice
To date, only reprogramming in brain cells that were already fully developed or which had only a limited ability to divide was possible. The new reprogramming method, developed by the Bonn scientists, now enables cells extracted from conventional body cells…
Oxygen deprivation could help people with chronic spinal cord injuries
Two papers have just been published on intermittent hypoxia (IH) (or oxygen deprivation), both showing a strong link to nerve restoration. “Acute IH elicits sustained increases in volitional somatic motor output in persons with chronic SCI. Thus, acute IH has…