HEIDELBERG, Germany, Sept. 18, 2008 –SYGNIS Pharma AG (Frankfurt: LIO; ISIN DE0005043509; Prime Standard) today announced that it has received a positive recommendation from the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) for AX200 in the treatment of spinal cord injury...
Medicalnewstoday - September 18, 2008 - A new study finds that following minor spinal cord injury, rats that had to use impaired limbs showed full recovery due to increased growth of healthy nerve fibers and the formation of new nerve cell connections. Published in the September 17 issue of The Journal of...
23.08.2008
By Matt Stewart
Scientists funded by Masterton's CatWalk Trust have developed a breakthrough gel that has the potential to improve healing in spinal cord damage repair.
"This is huge we're very excited the money we spent is looking like it's going to be extremely beneficial we're buzzing," trust founder Catriona Williams said.
A former international equestrian representative, Mrs Williams founded the CatWalk Trust in 2005 after a fall from a horse...
The proteoglycan chondroitin sulfate (CSPG) plays an important role not just in the formation of the glial scar but also in the repair of spinal cord injury, according to an article released on August 18, 2008 in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine.
In injuries to the central nervous system such as spinal cord injury, the glial...
From the Chicago Tribune
"This is just the beginning and we don't really know exactly what it means," said Dr. Evan Snyder of Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, who discovered brain stem cells 15 years ago, the first such cells to be found in a solid organ. "There's an enormous amount of work to be done to prove that we're not simply being fooled by things we see in tissue cultures."
But Snyder's discovery appears to shatter a major tenet of biology--that once nature created an organism, the blueprint was...
By Rebecca Palmer
Deseret News
Published: Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008 12:18 a.m. MDT
Four years ago, Maggie Anderson's spine was crushed when the minivan she was riding in hit black ice, flipped and landed on her.
Anderson will forever regret not strapping on a seat belt that day in Idaho. But at 21, she's found joy in life, good friends and even a chance of escaping her wheelchair.
Hope first came days after the crash, when she realized she could roll over. Three years later, after intensive daily ...
Washington, July 25 (IANS) Adult stem cells actually originate in a different part of the brain unlike previously believed and can be coaxed into producing new brain cells to replace those lost to disease or...
TUESDAY, July 22 (HealthDay News) -- Adult stem cells that may prove valuable in efforts to develop nonsurgical treatments for spinal cord injuries have been identified by researchers in the United States and...
Eight years ago a Swedish medical registrar, Anna Bagenholm, found herself the subject of the medical textbooks she had been studying. Skiing with friends in a waterfall gully in northern Norway, she went off course and plunged head-first into the...
NEW YORK & PETACH TIKVAH, Israel, Jul 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) ----BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics Inc. (OTCBB:BCLI), a leading developer of adult stem cell technologies and therapeutics, has completed a preclinical study in collaboration with the W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. The study ...