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Originally Posted by Mike F
Captain is right though - spinal cord researchers are making progress on regeneration, but getting a nerve to transverse a gap and connect with the correct end on the other side of the gap is an outstanding problem.
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I actually wonder if that would be necessary. I remember reading that as infants, our brains don't know what nerve is going where, and the brain learns as you grow. Perhaps just having any nerve connect to any other nerve might be enough, and given time the brain could re-learn where the nerve is going. Obviously many other hurdles, but connecting to the "right" nerve may not be necessary.