Sentences with phrase «new nerve fibres»

The idea of the implants is to create tiny conduits to guide formation of new nerve fibres, or axons, across this fluid - filled space.

Six months later, Vescovi and Gelain found that new nerve fibres had grown all the way through many of the microscopic channels.

Not exact matches

Christine Radtke is working to use spider silk to reconnect severed nerve fibres Radtke and her colleagues at the Medical University of Hannover, from whence the surgeon transferred to Vienna in October 2016, developed a new microsurgical technique that involves filling the veins with spider silk to form a longitudinal guide structure.

The rats saw a four-fold increase in nerve fibres throughout their brain and spine, with the new fibres bypassing the original injury and allowing signals from the brain to reach the spine.

Magnetogenetics is a new spin on optogenetics, using magnets instead of fibre optics to turn nerve cells on and off

This allows nerve fibres to grow in the right direction by following simple developmental rules controlled by biochemical signals — in a similar way to how the grid of New York City's streets makes it easy to give someone directions to a destination.