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Man with severed spine walks again

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  • AxtremusA Offline
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    Paralysed man with severed spine walks thanks to implant
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60258620

    Science!

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    • IvorythumperI Offline
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      wonderful!

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      • MikM Away
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        Mik
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        Good news story. From little acorns, mighty oaks

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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          In a similar vein, there's lots of work being done on regeneration of nervous tissue. Long-thought to be impossible (once you cut a nerve, it's cut), there are signs that various types of neural injury can be reversed.

          I've been following David Sinclair's work for about a year and a half, and one of his students was able to restore neural function in crushed frog optic nerve. By "function," I mean to say that the nerve started to show normal metabolic activity, beyond the "crush" site, not the the frogs were able to see again.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            How about we skip wired nerve connections and go straight to Bluetooth or the like for all communication in the body?

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              How about we skip wired nerve connections and go straight to Bluetooth or the like for all communication in the body?

              George KG Offline
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              George K
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              @klaus said in Man with severed spine walks again:

              How about we skip wired nerve connections and go straight to Bluetooth or the like for all communication in the body?

              https://altered-carbon.fandom.com/wiki/Cortical_Stack

              "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

              The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              • George KG George K

                @klaus said in Man with severed spine walks again:

                How about we skip wired nerve connections and go straight to Bluetooth or the like for all communication in the body?

                https://altered-carbon.fandom.com/wiki/Cortical_Stack

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                @george-k said in Man with severed spine walks again:

                @klaus said in Man with severed spine walks again:

                How about we skip wired nerve connections and go straight to Bluetooth or the like for all communication in the body?

                https://altered-carbon.fandom.com/wiki/Cortical_Stack

                Damn Meths...

                Please love yourself.

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