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Spinal Cord Injury
A spinal cord injury (SCI) is damage to the spinal cord that causes temporary or permanent changes in its function. Symptoms may include loss of muscle function, sensation, or autonomic function in the parts of the body served by the spinal cord below the level of the injury.
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MAR 11, 2020 | 12:00 PM
Approximately 300,000 people in the United States have a spinal cord injury with many of these individuals experiencing permanent motor and sensory deficits. For individuals with cervical sp...
JAN 01, 2020 | 6:00 AM
Brain machine interfaces or neural prosthetics have the potential to restore movement to people with paralysis or amputation, bridging gaps in the nervous system with an artificial device. M...
FEB 27, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: February 27, 2019TIME: 8:00am PST Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can form any tissue or cell in the body, and are the ideal starting material to manufacture...
DEC 12, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: December 012, 2018TIME: 08:00 PSTImmunotherapy is a powerful treatment that harnesses the body’s immune system in the fight against cancer. With optimized cell therapy,...
FEB 27, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: February 27, 2019TIME: 8:00am PST Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can form any tissue or cell in the body, and are the ideal starting material to manufacture...
DEC 12, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: December 012, 2018TIME: 08:00 PSTImmunotherapy is a powerful treatment that harnesses the body’s immune system in the fight against cancer. With optimized cell therapy,...
DEC 06, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) intended for translational applications need to be of...
MAR 15, 2018 | 9:00 AM
The inability of neurons to regenerate damaged axons within the CNS has dire consequences for victims of traumatic or ischemic brain injury and multiple neurodegenerative diseases. Like other...
MAR 16, 2017 | 6:00 AM
A fundamental challenge in developing brain machine interfaces (BMIs) is building a decoder between patterns of brain activity and movement in patients with spinal cord injury, ALS, and amput...
