An Italian research team has come
up with a key new material able to repair nerve lesions,
according to a study published Tuesday.
The material assembles itself and becomes a sort of
scaffolding on which to grow brain stem cells and in future
repair nerve lesions, according to tests on mice.
Tests are now being conducted on pigs and, in light of new
data, human testing could start in three year's time, said the
study published in the journal Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS).
The research was carried out in Lombardy and Puglia by
Fabrizio Gelain in collaboration with Angelo Vescovi.
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