Northwestern University scientists have healed lab-grown human spinal cords using an injectable therapy built on “dancing molecules,” a treatment that previously restored movement in paralyzed mice.

A new therapy that first made headlines in 2021 is now showing potential to heal human cartilage. Developed by scientists at Northwestern University, the technique was initially created to repair ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, scientists have used organoids as an easy, affordable method of testing potential therapies before performing ...

Spinal cord injuries cause permanent paralysis in part because inflammation, cell death, and glial scarring block nerve regeneration, and there has been no reliable human tissue model to test ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Picture the typical stroke response: paramedics rush patients to hospitals where doctors race to restore blood circulation, but ...

Surgical procedure. Image by Pfree2014 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 Surgical procedure. Image by Pfree2014 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0 A new therapy uses synthetic nanofibers to mimic the natural signalling ...

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Fluorescent micrographs showing increased neurite outgrowth from a human spinal cord organoid treated with fast-moving “dancing molecules” (left) compared to one treated with slow-moving molecules ...