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Do we have regeneration of spinal cord tracts after injury yet? Nope—not even in rodents. Sorry, the mammalian brain is not really malleable at this level of o
by robwwilliams 2y ago
Do we have regeneration of spinal cord tracts after injury yet? Nope—not even in rodents.
Sorry, the mammalian brain is not really malleable at this level of organization. We might get there but not by winging it with transplants in humans. Get it to work in rats or pigs and I am happily on-board.
- Nasrudith 2y agoNeural malleability is its own separate problem from lacking neural regeneration technically. We have digital brain-spine bridges already to translate thoughts into movement via the spine via electrodes and they have done artificial spinal tissue connects in mice already. We just might have the pieces to start 'soldering' it together. Still a low chance of success. Maybe they think it might help with learning things that the mouse models cannot teach?