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Activating This Nerve Cell Molecule Could Help Treat Spinal Cord Injury

Aberdeen University researchers – Dr. Wenlong Huang, Dr. Derryck Shewan, and Dr. Alba Guijarro-Belmar – found a novel way to repair injured spinal nerves. In experiments with rats, they achieved significant regrowth of the animals’ severed nerves when they activated a molecule found in nerve cells called Epac2. When nerves...

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Injecting These Molecules Can Help Cure Blindness And Paralysis

Thousands of people face life-long losses in motor function and sensation due to spinal cord injury. This is because the components of a central nervous system do not regenerate. Along the spine runs the neurons with long wiry projections called axons protruding outward. The axons provide the sensation of touch...

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Bioinformatic Analysis Leads to Gene Combination that Makes Clinical Quality Mouse iPSCs

Bioinformatic Analysis Leads to Gene Combination that Makes Clinical Quality Mouse iPSCs

Adult cells can be de-differentiated so that they resemble embryonic stem cells by genetically engineering them to overexpress particular genes. Such reprogrammed cells are known as induced pluripotent stem cells or iPSCs, and these cells might have the potential to cure damaged nerves, regrow limbs and organs, and precisely model a patient’s particular disease. Unfortunately, the very process of…

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