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Mouse with Severed Spinal Cord Recovers 'Normal' Movement After Potentially Revolutionary Treatment

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What backs it

Biotech engineers in Zurich successfully restored normal movement in a mouse with a completely severed spinal cord using micro-sized robots and stem cells, demonstrating a potentially revolutionary technology also tested in zebrafish.

What it doesn’t mean

This does not prove the treatment will work in humans or that it will be clinically available soon; early animal studies often do not translate to human applications.

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