Healing severed nerves in a few weeks!:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120203092423.htm

Genuine breakthrough. Of course for now it is confined to mice or rats but it looks very promising.

http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=342

This story was featured in the 'science or fiction' section of the SGU podcast this week.

It's excellent news and represents a major breakthrough if it can be replicated in humans.

Originally posted by googlefudge
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/archive/podcastinfo.aspx?mid=1&pid=342

This story was featured in the 'science or fiction' section of the SGU podcast this week.

It's excellent news and represents a major breakthrough if it can be replicated in humans.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Hey, thanks for the link, new one for me. It indeed will be a real breakthrough if it holds up for humans. At least we can fix broken mice now🙂

Originally posted by Soothfast
I think at this point medical science knows how to keep a mouse alive for 200 years.

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Originally posted by Soothfast
I think at this point medical science knows how to keep a mouse alive for 200 years.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
That'd be a good trick, seeing that they haven't been seriously trying to for even a single century...

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Then you apparently have never heard of Cosmo the immortal mouse with superpowers. Not only did they fix his severed nerves back in 1812, they gave him super powers, can leap tall mailboxes with one bound, faster than a speeding puddy tat, stronger than a vicious chihuahua. You must lead a sheltered life🙂