Latest
Featured in spinal cord
Apr 05, 2019
What we know about the polio-like illness paralyzing children—and what we don’t
Acute flaccid myelitis is challenging to predict.
Aug 08, 2016
Answering Why Snakes Are Long Could Help Repair Human Spinal Cords
A recently discovered genetic trait in snakes could help scientists find a cure for spinal injuries
Nov 17, 2015
Why Does A Fly Landing On Your Arm Make You Itch?
It's due to special receptors in your skin, and the discovery could lead to a cure to chronic itchiness
Sep 23, 2015
Brilliant 10: Maryam Shanechi Decodes The Brain To Unlock Its Potential
Building the next brain-machine interfaces
Jun 26, 2013
Scientists Regrow Severed Spinal Cords In Rats
Neuroscientists surgically and chemically reconnect rats' severed spinal cords, recovering the rats' bladder control.
May 20, 2011
With Electrical Stimulation to the Spinal Cord, Paralyzed Man Walks Again
Electrical impulses sent to a paralyzed man’s spinal cord allow him to walk again, researchers say. Rob Summers, 25, can...
Oct 17, 2009
Placebo Effect’s Neural Activity Photographed for First Time
Researchers used fMRI scans to spot the placebo effect at work in specific spinal cord cells
