This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved the global clinical trial to treat spinal cord injury (SCI), which is ...

Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human brain and spinal cord with exceptional accuracy. These delivery systems are ...

In a new clinical study, researchers from the Texas Biomedical Device Center (TxBDC) at The University of Texas at Dallas demonstrated unprecedented rates of recovery for spinal cord injuries.

Several studies have demonstrated that SPIO-labeled stem ... and implanted into a spinal cord hemisection. The hydrogel re-established the anatomic continuity of the tissue 6 weeks after ...

A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket. This was the first time ...

By analyzing DNA and proteins in the blood of people with and without acute spinal cord injuries (SCIs), researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a novel blood ...

She's defying the odds after a spinal cord injury in 2020 left her with less than a three percent chance of moving anything below her neck. Wachtel said the plan to stand had been in the works for ...

Anderson Cooper: This week on 60 Minutes, we're doing a story about efforts to help people who are paralyzed with severe spinal cord injuries develop the ability to walk again. And not just walk ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating, debilitating, and life-altering condition that currently lacks a definitive cure or highly effective treatment ...

The fluid flows through hollow spaces in the brain called ventricles and around the spine in the spinal column. It protects the central nervous system ... The spinal cord is a long bundle of nerve ...

as well as a protective passageway through which the spinal cord and individual nerve roots pass from the brain to the base of the spine. Viewed in cross-section, the complex anatomy of the bony spine ...