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 ...

Some animals have the ability to grow new arms and legs. Can we learn their secrets and duplicate them in humans? In Spider-Man comics, scientist Curt Connors injects himself with a serum based on ...

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 ...

Is science about to revolutionize treatment for spinal cord injuries? Researchers in San Diego may have figured out a way to do what was previously thought impossible, and train the nerves to ...

July 12 (UPI) --An investigational cancer drug has been shown to help regenerate damaged nerves after spinal trauma with "remarkable recovery" of sensory and motor functions in animals, British ...

A new study in mice led by University College London (UCL), in partnership with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) and AstraZeneca, reveals a new compound that can stimulate nerve ...

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

University of South Carolina scientists are exploring ways to make nerve regeneration happen faster and more successfully. A new study published in Current Biology identifies the biological triggers ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Zurich show that different stem cell populations are innervated in distinct ways. Innervation may therefore be crucial for proper tissue regeneration. They also ...