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Once researchers are able refine techniques to derive pluripotent cells and utilize them to regenerate tissue, there will be vast applications in a clinical setting. Such advances could forever change the face of human health care.

Introduction/Background

Stem cells are biological cells that have two very important qualities, first, potency, or the ability to differentiate into several cell types, and second,...

What's the most catastrophic illness that can befall us? To me it's a spinal-cord injury (SCI) that results in total paralysis. During a recent visit to Israel, I interviewed Dr. Shimon Rochkind, a world-renowned neurosurgeon at the Tel Aviv University Sourasky Medical Center and an expert on SCI...

Integra LifeSciences bought SeaSpine, a spinal fusion device company, for $89 million in cash. The combination of SeaSpine's portfolio with Integra LifeSciences' existing spine business will make its spine and orthobiologics portfolio the largest component of the company....

What's the most catastrophic illness that can befall us? To me, it's a spinal cord injury (SCI) that results in total paralysis. During a recent visit to Israel, I interviewed Dr. Shimon Rochkind, world-renowned neurosurgeon at the Tel Aviv University Sourasky Medical Center, an expert on SCI.

Every year, 12,000 North Americans sustain spinal cord injury. The people involved are usually under the age of 30 and 80% are males. Some...

Three young Melbourne quadriplegics, who now walk, have secured the exclusive licensing rights from Project Walk™, a spinal cord injury recovery centre in the USA, to establish the first Project Walk™ Facility in Melbourne.

Rhiannon Tracey, Josh Wood and Irwin Vale are three young Australians who in the prime of ...

When it comes to investing in new medical technologies, some of the most exciting and dynamic equities are companies that are involved in stem cell technology. There are several companies and firms that are working in the field of stem cells. Currently that number is roughly 300 entities engaged in the effort. Of those 300, only 2 companies have received the approval from the Food and Drug Administration..

Sat May 21 - After Rob Summers was paralysed below the chest in a car accident in 2006, his doctors told him he would never stand again. They were wrong.

Despite intensive physical therapy for three years, Summers' condition hadn't improved. So in 2009, doctors implanted an electrical stimulator onto the lining of his spinal cord to try waking up his damaged nervous system...

San Francisco Business Times - by Ron Leuty
Date: Friday, April 29, 2011, 12:59pm PDT
 
A federal funding ban on embryonic stem cell research was lifted by an appeals court Friday.

A three-judge panel with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a 2-1 ruling, said the National Institutes of Health can fund embryonic stem cell research. Central to the ruling is the court's...

A tiny chip implant is enabling paralysed and injured people to move objects by the power of their thoughts – and, in time, researchers hope it could help them walk again
 
Paul Harris The Observer, Sunday 17 April 2011 Article history
John Donoghue, the founder of BrainGate, has developed technology that helps paraplegics move their limbs through thought. Photograph: Jamie James Medina for the Observer
The robotic arm clutched a glass and swung it over a series of coloured dots that resembled a Twister...

Published 04/13/2011 - 5:51 a.m. CST  Rice University lab tests 'assist-as-needed' exoskeleton to aid recovery

Randy Childers' path to a laboratory at Rice University began on a motocross track in West Beaumont, Texas.

The professional rider was injured in an accident while leading the last race of the day at Cowboy Badlands. Childers, then 24, suffered broken ribs, a compound fracture of the wrist and a crushed vertebra in his neck. A helicopter transported him to Houston, where surgeons inserted an artificial vertebra and fused...