More than 15 million people worldwide are living with spinal cord injury (SCI), which can affect their sensory and motor ...

An allogeneic stem cell-derived transplant, OPC1 helps restore or increase the functional activity in SCI patients. It is tailored to replace the spinal cord cells that are either ...

(“Cryo-Cell”), the world’s first private cord blood bank to separate and store stem cells in 1992, announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the payment of a quarterly cash ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

Immune cells called regulatory T cells have long been known for their role in countering inflammation. In the setting of ...

aDivision of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada bDivision of Neurosurgery, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada ...

Through single-cell sequencing and immunofluorescence experiments, we confirmed that the expression of LRP-1, the targeted receptor of Ang2, was elevated after spinal cord injury. Subsequently, we ...

Department of Orthopaedics, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, China Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an 710032, ...

In 2009 a team of biophysicists led by Anthony A. Hyman of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, were studying specklelike structures called P ...

A recent study from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India has revealed new details about how our cells clean up and recycle waste. This process, known as autophagy, is like a self ...