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Spinal injuries can render a person motionless or have irreversible damage to the nervous system that affects mobility and cognitive strength. Researchers at SISSA now believe that neural connectivity and motor skills can be regenerated by implanting carbon nanotubes at the site of injury. They have been studying the effect of smart materials like carbon nanotubes on the growth of nerve cells for 10 years. They started simple, but gradually moved to more complex systems that could actually support mammalian neural cell growth. They added, “In recent years, we passed from single neurons to brain tissue explants and from single nanotubes to two-dimensional structures and, now, three-dimensional ones.” Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials already demonstrated this regrowth phenomenon as linked with re-growing nerve fibres by magnetic resonance.

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