In a new study in mice, a team of researchers from UCLA, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Harvard University have uncovered a crucial component for restoring functional activity after spinal cord injury. The neuroscientists have shown that re-growing specific neurons back to their natural target regions led to recovery, while random regrowth was not effective.

Scientists regenerate neurons that restore walking in mice after paralysis from spinal cord injury::In a new study in mice, a team of researchers from UCLA, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Harvard University have uncovered a crucial component for restoring functional activity after spinal cord injury. The neuroscientists have shown that re-growing specific neurons back to their natural target regions led to recovery, while random regrowth was not effective.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      Monkeys are the next step.

      Well, probably dogs or cats first. But eventually monkeys.

      “Professor: As a man enters his 18th decade, he thinks back on the mistakes he made in life. Amy: Like the heaps of the dead monkeys? Professor: Science can not move forward without heaps!”

      • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 months ago

        Their comment was in relation to Neuralink being in the news about killing monkeys, recently, not attributing OP’s news to him.