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Our staff has deemed the following public research links as significant and/or new findings by the global research community in the search for a cure for paralysis. You can search the database by category, keyword, name, and/or date. Keep abreast of cure research breakthroughs by signing up for our monthly research newsletter.

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Adult stem cells from brain more promising for treatment

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...

posted @ Monday, August 04, 2008 3:17 PM by pmorton

Spinal Cord Stem Cells May Act as Nerve Repair System

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...

posted @ Monday, August 04, 2008 3:15 PM by pmorton

The cool way to treat trauma

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...

posted @ Monday, August 04, 2008 3:13 PM by pmorton

BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics and Rutgers University Study Shows That Transplanting NTF Cells Improves the Recovery of Spinal Cord Injury Rat Model

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 ...

posted @ Monday, August 04, 2008 3:11 PM by pmorton

New findings reinvigorate hopes for nerve cell regeneration

EU-funded scientists have forced damaged nerve cells to regenerate by administering a drug commonly used to treat cancer. The findings could one day lead to the development of effective treatments for injuries to the...

posted @ Monday, August 04, 2008 3:06 PM by pmorton