Gene therapy reverses rat's paralysis
June 2018, BBC News
Scientists say they have taken a significant step towards the goal of giving paralysed people control of their hands again. [...]
The researchers were trying to dissolve components of the scar tissue in the rats' spinal cord.
They needed to give cells in the cord a new set of genetic instructions - a gene - for breaking down the scar. [...]
"We also found a dramatic increase in activity in the spinal cord of the rats, suggesting that new connections had been made in the networks of nerve cells."
image source: https://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/3d-spinal-cord/1002530
Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant
Oct 2014, BBC News
In Honor of Christina Symanski
Network Address, 2015
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