The publication, titled Poly-L-Ornithine coated plant scaffolds support motor recovery in rats after traumatic spinal cord injury, counts Spiderwort Biotechnologies' Chief Executive Officer, Dr.

Researchers have developed drug-loaded nanoparticles that selectively target the cells responsible for causing damaging inflammation following a spinal cord injury. Given to mice soon after an injury, ...

CHICAGO — Scientists say they've found a promising experimental treatment to repair the spinal cord after a severe injury. It could also work in people who have been paralyzed. The nanotechnology uses ...

Spinal-cord injury interrupts communication between the brain and spinal cord, leading to paralysis. An implant that decodes the brain signals that control movements and drives electrical stimulation ...

After a traumatic motorcycle collision in 2017, Michel Roccati was left completely paralyzed from the waist down. He couldn’t have imagined that a few years later, he would be walking through the ...

In 2018, Grégoire Courtine, PhD, associate professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Jocelyne Bloch, MD, neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), published ...

A motorcycle crash left Michel Roccati with complete lower-body paralysis from a devastating spinal cord injury. That was in 2017. But now, the Italian native is walking again, courtesy of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Conquer Paralysis Now, a non-profit organization aimed at advancing spinal cord injury research, will break ground on its new headquarters in Indianapolis on Thursday. The ...

Millions of Americans affected by paralysis, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and ALS have turned to the NPRC for support.

For years, researchers have been helping paralyzed people walk by stimulating their spinal cords. Now, a team of Swiss scientists has improved upon that effort, enabling three patients with spinal ...