Ambitious in its scope, this volume includes telling input from renowned experts in a high-profile field, offering detailed perspectives on the most promising approaches at the same time as acknowledging just how far this medical technology has to travel.

Frontiers of Spinal Cord and Spine Repair: Experimental Approaches for Repair of Spinal Cord Injury.- Stem Cell Based Strategies for Spinal Cord Injury Repair.- Strategies for Endogenous Spinal Cord Repair: HPMA Hydrogel to Recruit Migrating Endogenous Stem Cells.- Stem Cells and Spinal Cord Injury Repair.- Chronic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury.- Repair of Radiation Damage and Radiation Injury to the Spinal Cord.- Malignancies of the Spinal Cord.- Molecular Basis of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration.- Bioceramics for Osteogenesis, Molecular and Cellular Advances.- Cell‑Based Therapies for Spinal Fusion.- Clinical Efficacy of Stem Cell Mediated Osteogenesis and Bioceramics for Bone Tissue Engineering.- Progenitor Cells: Role and Usage in Bone Tissue Engineering Approaches for Spinal Fusion.