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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 don't disagree, but it's not a physical impossiblity like breaking time/space barriers.
How many times have we redefined the body and medicine? I would liken this to when we figured out blood types. For a while we were trying to do tranaplants, and it seldom worked, because of rejection. Which we couldn't figure out. And it seemed like we never would. Why is the blood or organ doing this? It should be fine! Guess it just isn't possible. Body was not meant to do this.
Then blood types were figured out and it was a whole new era.
This is a big hurdle. But that's all it is, a hurdle. Once we figure out the underlying reason, and/or develop nano or genetics to bridge thar gap. Whole new era.