Nature: Scientific Reports

Research by award-winning SUNY Poly M.D. and Ph.D. candidate Zachary Olmsted, along with Drs. Yubing Xie and Janet L. Paluh of SUNY Poly's College Nanoscale Science and Engineering, has been published in Scientific Reports. This research in the Paluh laboratory is funded by the New York Spinal Cord Injury Research Board (NYSCIRB).

The research, conducted in collaboration with Michigan State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Houston Methodist Research Institute, is a first-of-a-kind method for the generation, handling, imaging, and CNS in vivo delivery of homotypic neural ribbons. By refining and advancing use of alginate-based hydrogels and generation of homotypic hiPSC-derived spinal cord-enhanced NSCs (scNSCs) we combine two critical technologies. 

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