However, one of several major obstacles to overcome is medicine’s inability – so far – to adequately repair nerve and spinal cord damage. Without this, any head transplant recipient would ...

has unveiled its audacious mission to develop the world's first head transplant system. The startling announcement comes accompanied by a spine-chilling video depicting the simulated procedure ...

Three of the four patients were deemed by examiners to have very slight improvements in sensation and muscle movement. Severe spinal injuries can have devastating consequences, often leaving patients ...

The patients who underwent the transplant this time were aged 60 or older and suffered spinal cord injuries in the 'subacute phase' within 14 to 28 days prior to surgery. A neural stem cell ...

Lonzo Ball of the Chicago Bulls, who underwent a double cartilage transplant in March 2023, met the family of the meniscus ...

I’ve never thought I’d say the following words, ‘I’m embarrassed to be an American.’ I served for 21 years in the U.S. Navy under six presidents — three Republicans and three Democrats and while I may ...

A team of researchers in Japan says two of four patients who received transplantation of special stem cells showed motor function recovery in a clinical study to repair spinal cord injuries.

Nanofibers as scaffolds in spinal cord repair Spinal cord injury ... in the host organism and establishes optimal conditions for transplantation. Biologically compatible nanofiber or hydrogel ...