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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Gene therapy restores hand function in rats
Researchers based in King’s College London have found that gene therapy can restore hand function after spinal cord injury in rats. After suffering a spinal cord injury, dense scar tissue usually forms. It is this tissue that prevents connections being…
Stem cell scarring aids recovery from spinal cord injury
In a new study, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden show that the scar tissue formed by stem cells after a spinal cord injury does not impair recovery; in fact, stem cell scarring confines the damage. These surprising findings, which…