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Stretching the limits to heal spinal cords

For years, scientists have been trying to make injured spinal cords grow back, with limited success.

Lying awake in bed one night, neurobiologist Douglas H. Smith came up with an offbeat alternative:

Instead of trying to regrow the damaged nerves, how about taking nerve cells from elsewhere in the body and getting them to stretch? After all, he reasoned, a similar process must be going on...


http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/14143033.htm

posted @ Monday, March 20, 2006 12:00 AM by host

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