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Peripheral nerves have some capacity for regeneration after an injury, but they often need help. For major damage, sections can be surgically replaced with nerves taken from other parts of the patient ...

After enduring a two-year diagnostic odyssey, Gregory Maassen received a diagnosis of a postinfectious form of peripheral ...

Nature has again proven effective in treating health conditions, this time nerve injury. According to a new study, a compound found in the blessed thistle plant accelerates the regeneration of damaged ...

SALT LAKE CITY – University of Utah scientists identified a worm gene that is essential for damaged nerve cells to regenerate, and showed they could speed nerve regeneration by over-activating the ...

Nerve damage affects millions of people. The symptoms can range from mild pins and needles, to numbness, to a partial loss of mobility. The cures are perhaps worse than the condition. Invasive ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a major ...

Nerve disease and injuries are tough to treat, largely because there's no way to regenerate many damaged nerve cells. Neurologist Joseph Corey is trying to change that. Corey and a team of scientists ...

A new study conducted by Weizmann Institute scientists has now uncovered a key process leading to the regeneration of peripheral nerves. Nerves in the peripheral nervous system (any part of the body ...

Scientists have used gene therapy to regenerate damaged nerve fibers in the eye, in a discovery that could aid the development of new treatments for glaucoma, one of the leading causes of blindness ...