When he stitched the piece of spinal cord back into the rat, it was able to walk, albeit with a slight limp.
Varia said she once visited a hospital in Kuwait that had an entire ward devoted to domestic workers who had spinal cord and back injuries from botched escape attempts or attempted suicide from high-rise residential buildings.
But Spanish ace Nadal kept battling and got a lucky break in the fourth game of the decider as his U.S opponent's return hit the net cord and bounced back on his side of the net to fall down a break.
And, because of my spinal cord injury from the back breakage, I can't feel my left foot so good either.
If the pregnancy is carried to term, the newborn needs an operationa few days later, so the spinal cord can be pushed back into the spinal column.
CNN: Study: Major benefits for spina bifida surgery in the womb
When it is injected into muscle, the AAV particles are sucked up by the hand-like protrusions connecting muscles with the nervous system, all the way back up into the spinal cord.
While nerves in the arms, legs and peripheral organs can sprout back at the rate of up to 1 millimeter per day, adult neurons in the brain or spinal cord, the so-called gray matter, were long assumed incapable of growing back after an injury.
The bone around the spine doesn't form properly, causing part of the spinal cord to stick out of the baby's back.
CNN: Study: Major benefits for spina bifida surgery in the womb
Doctors replaced the spinal cord into the spinal column and closed up the back just as they would on a newborn.
CNN: Study: Major benefits for spina bifida surgery in the womb
We discuss who cuts the cord and how cable companies either can win them back or watch them change television viewing as we know it.
FORBES: TV Cord-Cutters: Who You Are And Why You Scare Bigwigs
Rep. FILNER: Because we're going to have tens of thousands coming back, and they've had a particularly tough time with amputations and spinal cord and brain injuries.
应用推荐