The paralysed man can stand again after receiving experimental stem cell therapy. He was given an injection of neural stem ...

Researchers at Keio University have begun using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat and maybe even cure severe ...

The treatment only has a 50% success rate so far, but those who have received it have reportedly experienced no significant ...

Although scientists said larger clinical trials will be needed, the early results point to a 50-50 chance that this treatment ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first ...

Keio University said that the motor function score for two patients improved after an operation to implant more than 2 ...

A team of researchers in Japan says two of four patients who received transplantation of special stem cells showed motor function recovery in a ...

Keio University doctors said they have taken a promising step toward using human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells to ...

The Yomiuri ShimbunKeio University Prof. Masaya Nakamura, center, speaks at a news conference in Yokohama on Friday. The ...

TOKYO: A stem cell treat­ment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the ...

Paralysis caused by serious spinal cord injuries affects more than 150,000 patients in Japan alone, with 5,000 new cases each ...