A recent study published in the journal Engineering delves into the application of tissue engineering in spinal cord injury (SCI) repair, presenting a comprehensive review of the latest research and ...

Studying spinal cord injuries requires a material that can transmit clear signals yet remain flexible for when patients move ...

Biogen Canada Inc. announced today that Health Canada has issued marketing authorization with conditions (Notice of Compliance with Conditions (NOC/c)) for QALSODY™ (tofersen injection) for the ...

Each year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), millions of people in the U.S. are affected by spinal cord ...

A new study has found that increasing the levels of "healthy fats" may improve survival in a motor neurone disease model.

Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) causes a loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. It mainly affects facial and swallowing muscles and the muscles in the arms and legs.

Enhancing levels of "healthy fats" like omega-3s in the brain could be beneficial in motor neuron disease (MND) finds a new study in fruit flies and brain cells, led by UCL researchers.

The condition is caused by mutations in the survival motor neuron gene (SMN1) which causes a deficiency of a protein crucial for the survival of motor neurons in the spinal cord. “This prevents ...

For the first time ever, doctors have treated a rare genetic disease known as spinal muscular atrophy ... SMA is a progressive condition that affects motor neurons, the specialized cells that ...

These developmental stages in rats and mice yield DRG neuron cultures with similar percentages of ... For central lesions, wild-type and spastin knockout mice underwent spinal cord dorsal hemisection ...