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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 ...

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

The surgery is expected to soon take place in Israel, in which a personalized engineered human spinal cord will be implanted ...

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

A British woman’s early cancer symptoms were mistaken for minor aches from gardening, which delayed proper diagnosis and ...

World's first spinal cord transplant could soon be a reality, one that could allow patients of Paralysis to walk again. The ...

Senior leaders with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Department of Veterans Affairs met Aug. 7 at the Jennifer Moreno ...

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 ...