SAN DIEGO, May 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Histogen Inc., a regenerative medicine company with a novel biological platform that replaces and regenerates tissues in the body, announced today the ...

(Nanowerk News) New ultrasmall peptides that can be used as building blocks for a wide range of regenerative applications such as spinal disc replacement and cartilage repair have been developed by ...

The funding provides the private-sector match for the company's Phase II grant from VentureLab, a Georgia Research Alliance program that encourages commercialization of technologies developed in ...

Back pain is one of the most common health issues worldwide, and spinal disc problems are often at the root of it. When a disc becomes herniated, bulging, or degenerative, it can put pressure on ...

For decades, the traditional approach to treating pain or disability from an injured spinal disc was to fuse the vertebra with plates, metal rods and screws. While this type of repair helps to relieve ...

Orthopedic researchers have for the first time found stem cells in both degenerated adult intervertebral discs of the human spine and in discs of animals. The scientists isolated cells from discarded ...

As populations worldwide continue to age, chronic back pain caused by intervertebral disc degeneration is emerging as a widespread and costly health burden. Now, researchers have uncovered a key ...

A unique repair mechanism has been discovered in the developing backbone of zebrafish that could give insight into why spinal discs of longer-lived organisms like humans degenerate with age. The ...

John Pimanda is employed by UNSW Australia and the Prince of Wales Hospital and receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. Vashe Chandrakanthan receives funding from the ...

Spanish-speaking workers in physically demanding jobs represent one of the key patient groups for a new artificial disc from Fridley-based Medtronic. So, the company’s spinal division in Memphis, Tenn ...