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When Christopher Reeve promises he'll walk
away from his wheelchair one day, you might think he's talking
comic-book reality. But the fact is that scientists are learning how to help the
central nervous system repair itself.[Posted Sept. 12, 1996]
Before we look at the regeneration of spinal nerves, let's get up to date on the man who's put a human face on paralysis.
Cast off your crutches? Last summer, for the first time in history, the severed spinal cord of an adult mammal grew acr ...
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