Scientists restore walking after spinal cord injury
bioengineering | biotechnology | nerves | nervous system | neurobiology | neuroscience | regeneration | regenerative medicine | science
Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord. For the first time, [...]
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