The rat, once paralysed with a completely severed spinal cord, had weeks earlier undergone pioneering surgery, as part of research headed by Technion and Tel Aviv University. Professor Shulamit ...

2). ExoPTEN has been tested as an intra-nasally administered formulation in an extreme rat model of acute SCI: complete transection of the spinal cord resulting in paraplegia. In an internal ...

The team at King's College London used gene therapy to repair damage in the spinal cord of rats. The animals could then pick up and eat sugar cubes with their front paws. It is early stage ...

The new technique was tested on mice and rats before trying it on human subjects. The breakthrough came after neuroscientists in Lausanne mapped all the neurons in the brain.