Scientists regenerate neurons that restore walking in mice after paralysis from spinal cord injury::In a new study in mice, a team of researchers from UCLA, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Harvard University have uncovered a crucial component for restoring functional activity after spinal cord injury. The neuroscientists have shown that re-growing specific neurons back to their natural target regions led to recovery, while random regrowth was not effective.

  • wafflez@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s more than just some “rodents.” Humans dont stop. It goes from “rodents” to bigger animals and eventually human testing when we already have alternatives like in vitro. They mass breed these animals with artificial insemination only to kill them in the end, even if they are perfectly healthy after the testing. It’s unnecessary and cruel. We’re talking on a grand scale, billions to trillions over the years have died for tests that often aren’t even applicable to humans. Animal testing should be abolished, humans are horrific for their actions. We’ve even taken brains of mice and made it so they can move tiny cars back and forth. Their whole consciousness reduced down to moving forward and backwards in a toy car. Absolutely barbaric.

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      1 year ago

      Their whole consciousness reduced down to moving forward and backwards in a toy car. Absolutely barbaric.

      You’re making it sound like they did it for funsies, rather than important research. Also, link please, this sounds like a massive breakthrough.