A 51-year-old `fit and healthy’ sports teacher died within ten days of being diagnosed with a killer brain tumour. According ...

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

New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Millions of people around the world suffer from chronic low back pain, often finding relief only through temporary solutions ...

They’re a type of tumor that can develop in a child’s central nervous system (CNS), including their brain or spinal cord. Gliomas are tumors that grow from glial cells, which are a type of ...

The goal is to have these cells then develop into neurons and glial cells, which support and ... that two out of four participants with a spinal cord injury saw improvements in their motor function.

Damaged brain tissue can be re-grown using a new method that lets researchers guide stem cells into exactly the ... injury and MS. The brain and spinal cord have a limited capacity to regenerate ...

Sustaining a spinal cord injury (SCI) is devastating enough ... Microglia and astrocytes are subtypes of glial cells, the non-neuronal cells of the brain and nervous system.

In this case, the nanogels were designed to bind to glial cells, which are crucial in the inflammatory response following acute spinal cord injury. The collaboration between Istituto di Ricerche ...

These are forms of glial cells, which have several functions, such as improving synapse formation. Astrocytomas span an average of 5–6 vertebrae. They can grow outside the spinal cord.

The central nervous system (CNS) consists of the brain and spinal cord, the body’s main control center. Glial cells are of utmost importance in this region, as they regulate vital functions ...

Afterwards, Phase 1b/2a trials will be started in spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis ... basically overreactive immune cells or glial cells, in sites of injury and in neurodegenerative diseases.