"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." When people say “grow a backbone,” they usually don’t mean it literally. But scientists at The Francis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have taken a major step toward treating spinal cord injuries that cause paralysis. In lab dishes, researchers at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In recent years, scientists have used organoids as an easy, affordable method of testing potential therapies before performing ...

Approximately 308,000 people in the United States live with spinal cord injury. Nearly all lose bladder control. And yet the ...

For generations, paralysis from a damaged spinal cord has been seen as permanent. Once the nerves were injured, the signals carrying movement from the brain to the body were lost forever. But ...

Scientists have taken a major step toward treating spinal cord injuries that cause paralysis. In lab dishes, researchers at Northwestern University grew tiny organoids of the human spinal cord. Then, ...