Stem cell treatment using reprogrammed cells shows promising in helping paralyzed individuals regain lost functions.

Researchers at Tokyo's Keio University are conducting their study using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) -- created by ...

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

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

For years, a Japanese man lay motionless, paralyzed from the neck down after a devastating spinal cord injury. Doctors ...

A paralysed man can stand on his own after receiving an injection of neural stem cells to treat his spinal-cord injury. The Japanese man was one of four individuals in a first-of-its-kind trial ...

A Japanese patient paralyzed for years can now stand unaided after participating in a groundbreaking clinical trial using ...

Researchers have developed a stem cell treatment that they say allowed a paralyzed man to stand again following a spinal cord ...

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

A team of researchers in Japan says two of four patients who received transplantation of special stem cells showed motor function recovery in a clinical study to repair spinal cord injuries.

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. Applying low ...

The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and ...