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"At the forefront of this discovery is Professor Alex Woods, founder of Newrotex, a clinical-stage biotech start-up from the University of Oxford. Nerves are basically like a telephone cord a tube with lots of little wires that carry information between your brain, muscles, and skin. If you experience nerve damage, from something as serious as being in an accident, to just cutting an avocado the connection between your nerves is severed. This can cause chronic pain, numbness, or even paralysis."
A news outlet funds on-the-ground reporting across topics such as reproductive rights, climate change, and Big Tech through donations while keeping reporting free of paywalls. Scientists have discovered that combining spider silk with silkworm silk could repair severe nerve injuries. Professor Alex Woods, founder of Newrotex at the University of Oxford, leads this work. Nerves function like a telephone cord: tubes with many small wires carrying signals between brain, muscles, and skin. Nerve damage can cause chronic pain, numbness, or paralysis, and affects about one in ten people in the UK. The current gold-standard treatment is an autograft, harvesting a healthy nerve from elsewhere.
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