The work also bodes well for helping people with injured spinal cords to walk again, he says: If just one connection from the brain has to be repaired, «then hope becomes much stronger that spinal cord regeneration could be successful.» (sciencemag.org)
Combined neuron counts for all laminae (4 to 9) showed that hGDABMP transplantation promoted increases of 40 % and 32 %, in two separate experiments, of surviving neurons compared to untreated injured spinal cords (Fig. 7 A; Table 1), with significant increases seen in all laminae. (journals.plos.org)
Envision people tragically paralyzed whose injured spinal cords can be repaired. (nanotechproject.org)