When someone has a stroke—a leading worldwide cause of death and disability—time is of the essence. Almost nine out of 10 cases are ischemic strokes, caused by restricted blood flow in the brain, and ...

Some parts of our bodies bounce back from injury in fairly short order. The outer protective layer of the eye—called the cornea—can heal from minor scratches within a single day. The brain is not one ...

Immunofluorescence analysis revealed that subsets of PDGFRα⁺ oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) accumulating at the peri-infarct border exhibited upregulated HIF-1α and CXCR4 expression 3–5 days ...

Restoring blood flow after an ischemic stroke can trigger secondary brain injury, causing inflammation, neuronal death, and long-term disability that current treatments do not address. Researchers ...

A stroke occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is interrupted, either by a blockage (ischemic stroke) or by bleeding ...

Cell therapy is the treatment of disease or disability by the injection of cells into a patient. These might be the patient’s own cells or come from a donor. They might be engineered, manipulated, or ...

Your brain needs a continuous supply of blood to survive. Fortunately, the human brain is supported by 400 miles of blood ...

Illustration showing a transplanted nerve cell (gold) using its internal compass (code) to find its partner nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord (green). Some parts of our bodies bounce back from ...