Well, while serial gamblers like us degen from one ponzi to the other in the hopes of making it big, there are actually some good people trying to make the world a better place :) ð
What I am talking about is a new paper that was published today in Nature, where scientists seem to have solved, or at least put a huge stepping stone, in treating spinal cord paralysis! They prettu much did what was only a dream for decades and decades. They devised a protocol that helped paralyzed people walk once again!
Here are some titbits from the paper, I will leave a link down below if you want to give it a read!
Here we show that spatiotemporal epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the lumbar spinal cord 1,2,3 applied during neurorehabilitation4,5 (EESREHAB) restored walking in nine individuals with chronic spinal cord injury
This recovery demonstrates the therapeutic efficacy of EESREHAB in a large number of people who exhibited neurological deficits spanning the entire range of severities after SCI, thus opening a path for the clinical deployment of this therapy.
We thus identified a recovery-organizing neuronal subpopulation that is necessary and sufficient to regain walking after paralysis.
Full paper at -> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05385-7
Amazing shit!
I guess if the world survives and doesn't burn in a nuclear Armageddon or something we will see amazing stuff in the next decade. Who knows, maybe we will be even able to regenerate lost limbs!
My bet is on nuclear holocaust of course, but hey...you never know ðĪŠð