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Repairing spinal cord damage

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  1. Sarah Crunkhorn

Spinal cord injury (SCI) often results in permanent paralysis and disability as neurons in the central nervous system fail to regenerate. There are currently no effective therapies for promoting neural repair after SCI.

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 25, 21 (2026)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-025-00196-7

References

  1. van Niekerk, E. A. et al. Thiorphan reprograms neurons to promote functional recovery after spinal cord injury. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09647-y (2025)

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