Researchers led by Jean-Paul Noel at the University of Minnesota, United States, have decoupled intentions, actions and their effects by manipulating the brain-machine interface that allows a person ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a relatively rare but very serious disease of the nervous system. A cure is not yet ...

Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of the body. These neurons coordinate muscle activity. Motor neurons ...

People’s Republic of China Jilin Engineering Research Center for Spine and Spinal Cord Injury, Changchun 130021, China Department of Orthopedics, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a disorder affecting the motor neurons—nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement. These cells are located in the spinal cord. Because the muscles cannot ...

The scientists implanted four spinal cord injury patients with pluripotent stem cells to grow millions of new neural cells. Okano said two patients recovered "some" motor function, with one ...

In vivo tracking of stem cells in brain & spinal cord lesions MRI detection as well as histological analysis demonstrated that grafted adult as well as embryonic stem cells labeled with SPIO ...

"The results reinforce ExoPTEN's potential to enhance the body's natural repair mechanisms following spinal cord injury. Notably, the increased blood vessel size observed in treated subjects indicated ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI)-a condition that leads to ... Despite recent advances in SCI treatment, restoring lost motor ...

Jia and colleagues developed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based biosensor to study programmed cell death in the zebrafish spinal cord ... such as using antibodies to stain specific ...

Interestingly, we found that only a surprisingly small percentage of spinal cord motor neurons died ... assays in zebrafish frozen sections. The motor neurons of the sensor zebrafish were identified ...