The Israeli Health Ministry approved an initial round of “compassionate use” procedures for eight patients. Dvir emphasized that the decision to perform the world’s first spinal cord transplant in ...

Scientists have created a lifelike model of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neuron disease, using cells ...

With Health Ministry okay, Tel Aviv University prof will perform surgery that will mark the first time pieces of spine are ...

For generations, paralysis from a damaged spinal cord has been seen as permanent. Once the nerves were injured, the signals ...

Israel is set to perform the world’s first spinal cord transplant using a patient’s own cells, marking a historic milestone ...

World-first human trials have begun in Queensland for a trailblazing treatment offering paralysed spinal cord injury patients ...

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Israel is preparing to perform the world’s first human spinal cord transplant using a patient’s own cells, a medical ...

Spinal cord stimulators are electrical devices that are surgically implanted in the body to treat long-term pain. They have a battery pack and leads that deliver electrical impulses directly to the ...

Repairing the spinal cord has for a long time been a ‘holy grail’ for neuroscientists. No achievement in neuroscience is more difficult to achieve, and none would have the same impact amongst ...

Six years after getting paralyzed while working as an Ocean Grove lifeguard, Sam Jarmer keeps battling to walk again, thanks ...