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

A new study has found important clues about the roles age, sex, hormonal changes and genetics play in how certain biomarkers for dementia are expressed in the blood, according to a study published on ...

Every year roughly 1,000 Canadians are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). Some 4,000 Canadians are currently living with the disease. There are few ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

There are very few effective treatments to slow the symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as motor neurone ...

I was wondering if it would be beneficial to keep our babies’ umbilical cords, which would be full of stem cells. We would like to know how that works and if there are already uses for cord blood.

These include astrocytes, which are cells in the central nervous system that support a broad range of functions. The RYK protein (white) appears on the axons (red) and astrocytes (green) in human ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - A new program at the Center for Accessible Living is offering life-changing accessibility for individuals with spinal cord injuries across the 10-county BRADD region.

The detection of peripheral neural stem cells could transform the treatment of Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries Peripheral neural ... to a limited extent, glial cells during embryonic and ...

Furthermore, many peripheral neural stem cells that migrate out of the neural tube can differentiate into mature neurons and, to a limited extent, glial cells during embryonic ... such as Parkinson's ...