Paralysed mice recover
BOCHUM: German researchers have enabled mice paralysed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, reestablishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals, by using a designer protein injected into the brain.
Spinal cord injuries in humans leave them paralysed because not all the nerve fibres that carry information between muscles and brain are able to grow back.
But the researchers from Ruhr University Bochum managed to stimulate the paralysed mice’s nerve cells to regenerate using a designer protein.
Paralysed rodents that received the treatment started walking after two to three weeks, researchers said. — Reuters