The spinal cord bladder and bowel reflex arc is damaged in patients with injuries to the cauda equina, lumbar and sacral segments below the conus medullaris. Patients do not typically transition to an ...

A new technique developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology helps convert skin cells into neurons without needing to transform them first into stem cells. As demonstrated in mouse cells, ...

Researchers at Keio University have begun using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat and maybe even cure severe ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first ...

Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries or diseases such as ... we're going directly from a somatic cell to a motor neuron." Galloway's research group and others have demonstrated ...

Although a motor neuron pool innervating one muscle represents a tightly clustered cell body aggregate in a defined position in the spinal cord in wild types, corresponding cell bodies in Foxp1 ...

New study in @jclinicalinvest by @HopkinsMedicine researchers suggests experimental blood test can indicate spinal cord ...

Scientists have developed a new method that can grow motor neurons from skin cells, which may serve as a platform for ALS ...

A recent study published in the journal Engineering delves into the application of tissue engineering in spinal cord injury (SCI ... loss of sensation and motor function. Current treatments ...

A team of Japanese researchers reports that two out of four patients who received stem cell transplants showed improvements in motor function, marking a potential breakthrough in the treatment of ...

Converting one type of cell to another—for example, a skin cell to a neuron ... quantities of motor neurons, which could potentially be used to treat patients with spinal cord injuries or ...