Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating, debilitating, and life-altering condition that currently lacks a definitive cure or highly effective treatment ...

Auxilium’s pivotal trial aims to enrol 80 patients who will receive its NeuroSpan Bridge device for nerve regeneration or a comparator.

A neuron extends an axon to make contact with other neurons. A team of more than 100 scientists recorded the cellular activity and mapped the structure in a cubic millimeter of a mouse’s brain ...

According to a new study, a compound found in the blessed thistle plant accelerates the regeneration of damaged nerves, restoring motor function and touch sensation. Damaged nerve fibers (axons ...

Scientists have been exploring ways to enable the regeneration of severed axons, with a view to developing viable treatments in the long term. Damages to the central nervous system (CNS), for ...

Perturbing regeneration turned out to be a difficult task. They tried taking away the molecular signal that’s required for the neurons to find their targets during embryonic development – the neurons ...

In a massive screen of 400 mouse genes, Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified 40 genes actively involved in suppression of axon regeneration in central nervous system cells. By editing ...

“We found that glia have a metabolic switch associated with glucose metabolism that when triggered reverses inhibitory effects on growth and promotes axon regeneration,” commented Shuxin ...

However, the Mauthner cell reacts to an injury in the middle of the axon with rapid and complete regeneration. Indeed, within a week after the injury, the axon and its function are fully restored ...

All of the mice experienced axon regeneration, the researchers reported. But they found that the best results occurred in the normal mice that received Lin28 injections post-injury. In fact ...

The study “Restoring cellular energetics promotes axon regeneration and functional recovery after spinal cord injury,” appears in Cell Metabolism. After injury (see damage at the center of the ...