Breakthrough Could Help Heal Spinal Cord Injuries Without Pain.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service | September 22, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: University of Colorado Denver

AURORA, Colo., Sept. 22 (AScribe Newswire) -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine say manipulating embryo-derived stem cell precursors prior to transplanting them holds the key to using stem cell technologies for repairing spinal cord injuries in humans.

In the online Journal of Biology, Dr. Stephen Davies, an associate professor of neurosurgery reports his research team has produced two types of spinal cord support cells called astrocytes ("star" cells) from the same embryo-derived stem ...

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