NFL Funds WSU Effort to Fix Injured Brains with New Nerve Cells – Video

Posted: February 5, 2013 at 10:41 am




NFL Funds WSU Effort to Fix Injured Brains with New Nerve Cells
Five years ago, Czaja and WSU colleagues discovered by accident that a nerve center just outside the brain can recover from damage by inducing developing stem cells to become functional nerve cells, or neurons. Now he is looking for the substances that get the process going. "Our idea is to trigger the cells and then plant them in a new, injured environment so they start to develop and seek connections," Czaja says. The grant is one of 15 that NFL Charities awarded last year to support sports-related medical research, mostly in the prevention and treatment of concussions. For more about this story, click here: news.wsu.edu

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