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

Once damaged, it has limited ability to heal, leaving millions of people worldwide with permanent paralysis. However, a ...

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 ...

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