Precisely timed electrical stimulation and intensive rehabilitation restore some capacity to walk among three men more than four years after their debilitating injuries.

The first human experiment with neural precursor cells implanted to treat chronic spinal cord injury suggests the procedure is safe, and hints at a small benefit.  

Thousands of axons grew from the transplants and connected to damaged primate tissue, the first such demonstration in primates.

Zebrafish have a remarkable ability to heal their damaged nerve fibers following a spinal injury.

Neuroscientist Geoffrey Raisman pioneered the study of spinal cord injury and the use of cell transplants to repair the damage.

A 3-D carbon nanotube mesh enables rat spinal tissue sections to reconnect in culture.

A 24-year-old quadriplegic man regains control of his arm with a neural prosthetic device.

Early neurons reprogrammed from human skin cells show unprecedented axonal growth in a rat model of spinal cord injury.

Nearly three years after Geron shuttered its stem cell program, BioTime receives funding to relaunch a Phase 1 trial for spinal cord injury.