Loss of vision from blunt trauma and glaucoma is usually permanent, as severed nerves rarely grow back. But recent findings by UConn School of Medicine neuroscientist Ephraim Trakhtenberg and ...

Marra and her colleagues severed nerves in the forearms of rhesus monkeys and inserted polymer tubes made of the same material as dissolvable sutures and covered in a neurotrophic factor. After a year ...

Now, Silver and Yu-Shang Lee, PhD, assistant staff scientist in the Lerner Research Institute of Cleveland Clinic, have regenerated nerves to return significant bladder function in rats with severed ...