Tag: Spinal cord injury
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Nation & World
An engineering approach to shape neuronal connections
Precise control over neuron growth paves the way for repairing injuries, including those to the spinal cord, and improving brain models.
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Nation & World
Rebuilding the brain’s circuitry
Harvard scientists have rebuilt genetically diseased circuitry in a section of the mouse hypothalamus, an area controlling obesity and energy balance, demonstrating that complex and intricately wired circuitry of the brain long considered incapable of cellular repair can be rewired with the right type of neuronal “replacement parts.”