Articles - Research en-us http://www.thescizone.com/news N/A http://www.thescizone.com/news michael@thescizone.com 20 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1571/1/Scientists-make-Mice-Walk-After-Spinal-Cord-Injury/1.html Have you ever wondered how we move our hand, feet and other parts of the body? It is through signals emanating from brain giving directions. But if spinal cord, the vertebral tissue connecting brain and lower part of spine, is damaged or injured, it effects our movements of limbs and in some cases other parts of the body leading to paralysis. Injury to spinal cord results in nerve damage which is due to trauma or injury to vertebral column thus effecting brain’s signaling ability. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1558/1/Promising-new-nanotechnology-for-spinal-cord-injury/1.html A spinal cord injury often leads to permanent paralysis and loss of sensation below the site of the injury because the damaged nerve fibers can't regenerate. The nerve fibers or axons have the capacity to grow again, but don’t because they're blocked by scar tissue that develops around the injury. Northwestern University researchers have shown that a new nano-engineered gel inhibits the formation of scar tissue at the injury site and enables the severed spinal cord fibers to regenerate and grow. The gel is injected as a liquid into the spinal cord and self -assembles into a scaffold that supports the new nerve fibers as they grow up and down the spinal cord, penetrating the site of the injury. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1561/1/Tale-Of-Two-Spinal-Injuries-Shows-Progress/1.html Everett, Buoniconti Injuries Highlight Advances Of Last 20 Years Kevin Everett and Marc Buoniconti each suffered a severe spinal cord injury while making a tackle. The difference between them on Friday was the result of more than 20 years of research.Buoniconti has used a wheelchair since being paralyzed while playing football for The Citadel in 1985. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1548/1/Ray-of-hope-for-spinal-cord-patients/1.html The researcher who found a way to get paralyzed rats back walking is now in Colorado and predicts huge breakthroughs in treatment of human spinal cord injuries in half a decade. "We've reached a stage where I'm comfortable saying that within the next five years, we will have truly effective new therapies from people with spinal cord injuries," Dr. Stephen Davies said this week. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1537/1/StemCyte-Expands-Support-of-World-Renowned-Spinal-Cord-Injury-Researcher-Through-Agreement-with-Rutgers-University/1.html StemCyte, Rutgers Sign Research, Licensing Agreement for Novel Human Umbilical Cord Blood Treatment for Spinal Cord Injury Being Developed by Wise Young, M.D., Ph.D.StemCyte Inc. and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, today announced at the Stem Cell Summit that they have entered into a research and licensing agreement for a spinal cord injury therapy being developed by Wise Young, M.D., Ph.D., that uses StemCyte's proprietary human umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells in conjunction with lithium.Under the terms of the agreement, StemCyte will provide financial sponsorship for Dr. Young's work at Rutgers' W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience and receive exclusive commercialization rights to the therapy. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1533/1/Spinal-injury-regeneration-hope/1.html Scientists believe they are close to a significant breakthrough in the treatment of spinal injuries. The University of Cambridge team is developing a treatment which could potentially allow damaged nerve fibres to regenerate within the spinal cord. It may also encourage the remaining undamaged nerve fibres to work more effectively. Spinal injuries are difficult to treat because the body cannot repair damage to the brain or spinal cord. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1484/1/Scientists-re-establish-walking-in-mice-with-damaged-spinal-cord/1.html A research by Michael Sofroniew, MD, PhD, Professor of Neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has arisen a new hope in millions of lives who get arrested at some period of their life because of paralyses. This recent studshows that by rewiring nerve fibers near the injury site allowed mice to walk again after a spinal cord injury. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1500/1/Mice-walk-again-after-spinal-cord-injuries/1.html SCIENTISTS have figured out how mice can regain some ability to walk after spinal cord injuries, and hope this insight can lead to a new approach to restoring function in people paralysed by similar damage. The research, published today in the journal Nature Medicine, showed the brain and spinal cord were able to reorganise functions after a spinal cord injury to restore communication at the cellular level needed for walking. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1498/1/Researchers-ask-Is-China-the-sleeping-giant-of-biotech/1.html China's biotech sector accounts for just a sliver of its pharmaceutical industry and operates under the cloud of a massive review of licenses issued under a regulator executed last year for accepting bribes.Even so, experts say, Chinese purveyors of genetically engineered drugs and vaccines -- targeting everything from cancer to Alzheimer's -- are growing at a frenzied pace and are likely to become major actors on the world stage. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.thescizone.com/news/articles/1485/1/Injured-Spinal-Cord-Rewire-Nerves/1.html Study With Mice Shows Walking May Be Possible After Rewiring of NervesRewiring healthy nerves may offer a new way to increase the odds of walking again after spinal cord injuries. A new study shows rewiring nerve fibers near the injury site allowed mice to walk again after a spinal cord injury. Although these results are only preliminary, researchers say the findings suggest that rewiring may be an easier way to restore walking after a spinal cord injury. People with spinal cord injuries lose the ability to walk because nerves in the spinal cord that send and receive signals to and from motor neurons in the brain are severed and crushed. michael@thescizone.com (Michael Feger) Mon, 07 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500