Are We Close To Repairing Spinal Cord Injuries?
Certain injuries we are able to fix, and some we simply don't have the technology to fix. One of the more common unfixable injuries involve spinal cords, but Trace explains how science might...
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Medical technology has two tiers -- we can fix that, or we can't fix that. Spinal cord injuries might soon be on the good list. Hey everybody, I'm Trace and you're plugged in to DNews -- When human nerves are damaged, they don't regenerate. Regeneration is different from healing. Healing leaves scars, but regeneration returns the tissue to the pre-injured state. We're relatively low on the regenerative scale -- our skin, toes, fingers, ribs, liver, pancreas, kidneys, and smooth muscles are all able to heal or regenerate. Nerves, neurons, skeletal muscles and the heart all grow to a certain size and stop. Some of the most devastating injuries involve long-term trauma and paralyzation of these non-regenerative tissues. When nerves in the s...
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Medical technology has two tiers -- we can fix that, or we can't fix that. Spinal cord injuries might soon be on the good list. Hey everybody, I'm Trace and you're plugged in to DNews -- When human nerves are damaged, they don't regenerate. Regeneration is different from healing. Healing leaves scars, but regeneration returns the tissue to the pre-injured state. We're relatively low on the regenerative scale -- our skin, toes, fingers, ribs, liver, pancreas, kidneys, and smooth muscles are all able to heal or regenerate. Nerves, neurons, skeletal muscles and the heart all grow to a certain size and stop. Some of the most devastating injuries involve long-term trauma and paralyzation of these non-regenerative tissues. When nerves in the s...
