techreview.com — One of the great challenges in neuroscience has been learning how to coax nerves to regenerate after injuries. Now scientists have shown that a newly discovered and highly potent growth-promoting molecule can regenerate the optic nerves of rats -- and do so days after the nerves have been damaged.
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darkdaedraMay 13, 2006
Lack of vision is bad unless one has sort bat-like sonar powers. What's good about this technology is that if one were to have sonar-vision and then get nerve damage that diminishes it, one could possibly get one's sonar-vision back. This is truly groundbreaking research.
fredratedMay 13, 2006
Correcting nerve damage is so cool.
njyoderMay 13, 2006
Go look up 'peripheral neuropathy.' There are many people with chronic pain resulting from nerve damage. Nerve damage, mind you, which is said to be the worst kind of pain. And often the pain from this is non-stop, 24/7. You SERIOUSLY need to do some research before you consider blindness the worst kind of disorder. You sound like the idiot kid who is perfectly healthy and hasn't bothered to spend more than 2 seconds thinking of the possible medical diseases and disorders you can have. You don't even need to include terminal illnesses to come up with ones that are worse. 24/7 pain from peripheral neuropathy or blindness?Have your limbs amputated or blindness?Third degree burns over the vast majority of your body or blindness?Complete loss of any sexual function or blindness?Really, you have no perspective kid and you should be ashamed if you're college age or older.
camaromanMay 13, 2006
Well, considering that I have motor focal neuropathy and the doctors told me there was no way the nerves could ever be reconnected, this is great news to me!!
antdudeMay 14, 2006
When I had surgeries on my mouth to open wider (born like that due to Nager's syndrome), I lost nerves and they never regained fully. I lost feelings and movements. You can read my surgery diary/blog here: <a class="user" href="http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/surgery/surgery.html">http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/about/surgery/surgery.html</a>