Intranasal stem cell therapy may one day treat brain disorders Many diseases of the central nervous system involve the death of neurons—so, theoretically, the replacement of dead cells shoul... Read more
Translational Research Goes Seamless: After Creating Neurons From Patients’ Skin Cells, Cedars-Sinai-led Researchers ‘Treat’ Gene Defect in a Dish, Indicating the Therapy May Work Although t... Read more
Treatment can improve appetite, ease chronic pain, and more, say TAU researchers Though controversial, medical cannabis has been gaining ground as a valid therapy, offering relief to suffers... Read more
Provides assistance by storing and releasing kinetic energy generated by a person when walking Like Honda’s Stride Walking Assist and the ReWalk, the Kickstart from Cadence Biomedical is des... Read more
“It doesn’t take very much practice either.” A new technology described in the paper published online on July 26 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, might allow p... Read more
What took place this past month at Hadassah Hospital’s Department of Neurology was not expected even by the most senior neurologists. An ALS patient- a chronic disease with no known cure tha... Read more
Electrical stimulation, brain “cooling” and drug-delivery devices are all being developed as antiseizure tools Epilepsy affects some 2.7 million Americans—more than Parkinson’s d... Read more
“From this work it appears that cisplatin is a promising lead compound for the rational design of ALS treatments,” A long-used anti-cancer drug could be a starting point to devel... Read more
UCSD scientists announced last week that a metabolism-boosting protein, PCG-1?, may help restore cell function in individuals afflicted by Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Lou Gehrig’s disease, or Amyo... Read more
The iBrain is part of a new generation of portable neural devices Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donn... Read more