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Regenerating the Spinal Cord |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / AT THE EDGE |
| Author: David L. Stocum |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 2,595 Words, 16,540 Characters |
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More than three decades ago, as I was embarking on a research career studying limb regeneration in salamanders, I read an article about a young athlete who had broken his neck in a trampoline accident, leaving him a quadriplegic. He was engaged to be married. With no hope for recovery, he did a brave and unselfish thing. He called off the engagement to give his fiancée a chance at a normal life.
I had seen limb regeneration as a tool for investigating how cells organize themselves into tissue patterns and had had no interest in potential medical applications from limb regeneration research. Reading this article broadened my horizons, impressing me with the need for linking studies of the basic biology of regeneration to the development of regenerative therapies, especially for nervo...
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...ll allow the regaining of at least partial function, which in itself will be of great benefit to SCI patients.
Additional Reading:
"Frontiers of Medicine: Regeneration," Science, vol. 276, April 4, 1997.
On the Internet:
The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation http://www.apacure.com/index.html
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis http://www.miamiproject.miami.edu/
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