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Promising New Nanotechnology for Spinal Cord Injury
northwestern.edu — Researchers have shown that a nano-engineered gel inhibits the formation of scar tissue at the injury site and enables the severed spinal cord fibres to regenerate and grow. The gel is injected as a liquid into the spinal cord and self-assembles into a scaffold that supports the new nerve fibres as they grow up and down the spinal cord.
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- reflex768, on 04/04/2008, -0/+11Superb research there. Paralysis is a prison for the innocent within themselves. It would wonderful if that project is on the cusp of breaking the bars.
- jggube, on 04/04/2008, -0/+7This is responsible research, when they don't try to obfuscate the potential failures of their study: "Kessler stressed caution, however, in interpreting the results. "It's important to understand that something that works in mice will not necessarily work in human beings. At this point in time we have no information about whether this would work in human beings."
So many are so concerned with grants and funding that they try to hide possible failure points.
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