Category: spinal injury research

Maybe it's the picture of a previously paralyzed white rat walking on its back legs, rather human in appearance, that gave it an extra boost. Right there it implies whatever happened to it, it looks to have application in people. Put that thing in pants and a red sweater and you got Stuart Little ready to trot off to school with the other kids. In any case a Swiss group's success at training, electrostimulating, and using drug (hormone? neurotransmitter?) therapy to get rats with nicked spinal cords to walk, even scamper around, is bound to get good play. At Reuters...