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COVINGTON, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TCA Cellular Therapy, LLC has enrolled its first patient to participate in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first adult stem cell clinical trial to treat spinal cord injuries. Enrollee and Marine Veteran, Matt Cole was paralyzed from the chest down in a 2005 insurgent attack in Iraq.

“I’m very encouraged by the results of the pre-clinical trials and anticipate this may become a significant therapy for these patients in the near future.”
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (February 2010), it is estimated that up to 311,000 people in the U.S. are living...

By Rob Waters and Molly Peterson - Jul 30, 2010
Geron Corp. said it was cleared by U.S. regulators to proceed with the first human test of an embryonic stem-cell therapy, aimed at patients with spinal-cord injuries. The shares rose 17 percent.

The Food and Drug Administration lifted a clinical hold on the study imposed last August when the company revealed that mice used in experimental work had...

PLAINSBORO, N.J., Jul 9, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation announced today the launch of DuraGen Plus(R) Dural Regeneration Matrix - Spinal Matrix, an absorbable and sutureless collagen onlay indicated as a dura substitute for the repair of dura mater.

Integra developed the first onlay collagen graft for dural...

A big question in regenerative medicine is how to most effectively deliver stem cells -- as well as other beneficial cells, proteins and large molecules -- to damaged tissues such as the spinal cord, heart and brain...

Victims of severe spinal injuries may someday be able to avoid paralysis if given a treatment targeting their genes in the hours after they are hurt, according to a new study released today...

MADISON, Wis., June 24 (UPI) -- A U.S. National Institutes of Health-funded laboratory study suggests the B vitamin folate can promote healing in damaged rat spinal cord tissue.

The investigation, led by University of Wisconsin-Madison Dr. Bermans Iskandar, an associate professor of neurosurgery, showed the nerve regeneration in the rats ..

The U.S. military has invested $1 million in local research to develop an antibody that can block damaging inflammation after a spinal cord or brain injury,

Tested on mice by scientists at the Robarts Research Institute, the therapy aims to limit damage caused by the inflammation that occurs after the initial injury...

The immune system produces antibodies in order to protect the body against invading pathogens such as viruses and bacteria. These viruses and bacteria function not only as soldiers but all nurses and this it appears was never known before. Researchers...

Scientists at the Anticancer Research Centre in San Diego have made a revolutionary invention. According to this discovery, severe spinal cord injuries can be treated with mice hair. The scientists presented their findings at the World Congress for Hair Research in Cairns...

The International Society for Stem Cell Research plans to evaluate the claims of clinics offering experimental stem cell treatments of dubious value.

By Emily Singer

From spinal cord injury in China to heart disease in Thailand, desperate patients trolling the internet can find a number of clinics and companies offering purported stem cell therapies of dubious value and great expense. According to Irving Weissman, president of the non...