Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) strives to promote educational and research development in the fields of ...

An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of regulated markets for trading 12,000 U.S. and international securities, ...

Treatment with a spinal cord stimulation system reduced pain and restored sensory nerve function in a small cohort of ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study has found. This stops pain signals before they get to the brain. The discovery could help ...

Researchers at Tokyo's Keio University are conducting their study using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) -- created by stimulating mature, already specialised, cells back into a juvenile state.

Motor improvements in SMA adults treated with Spinraza paralleled a boost in electrical impulses along nerves that supply ...

SpineX Inc., a pioneering medical technology company developing innovative non-surgical spinal cord neuromodulation solutions, today announced the results of its global, multisite pivotal trial, ...

The data convincingly show that the transcription factor Sp1 regulates ephrin-mediated axon guidance in the spinal cord. Although the authors show that Sp1 and its co-activators p300 and CBP are ...