Gene Therapy Allows Paralyzed Mice To Walk Again
(World News Science)

For the first time, researchers have managed to restore movement in mice that had suffered a “complete spinal cord crush”, thanks to the development of a signaling protein called hyper-interleukin-6 (hIL-6). Describing their methods in the journal Nature Communications, the study authors explain how they used gene therapy in order to stimulate the animals` neurons to start producing the protein, causing the damaged nerve cells to regrow in just a few...