Tag: Spinal cord injury

  • 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.

    5 minutes
    Paola Arlotta.
  • 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.”

    7 minutes