A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...

An infant with a fatal genetic disease has survived past the age of 2 with no signs of the condition, thanks to treatment ...

New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

A baby diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was successfully treated in the womb for the first time. Now over two ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

Doctors diagnosed Carmen Lopez with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) at birth, a rare genetic disorder that affects motor neurons ...

A neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist discover promising new ways to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine researchers have discovered a dual regulatory mechanism safeguarding ...

"To counteract neurodegeneration, we need two things—stop neuron death and ... from the brain and the spinal cord to the muscles. Over time, the loss of motor neurons causes gradual muscle ...

An experimental treatment that stimulates the spinal cord may help people with a paralyzing ... until that time is that this is really a motor neuron disease, and if you fix the motor neurons ...

A toddler was successfully treated for a rare genetic disease, spinal muscular atrophy, after world-first in-womb therapy.