{"id":11367,"date":"2021-01-21T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118746\/german-scientists-help-paralysed-mice-walk-again"},"modified":"2021-01-21T17:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T17:32:53","slug":"german-scientists-help-paralysed-mice-walk-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/german-scientists-help-paralysed-mice-walk-again\/","title":{"rendered":"German scientists help paralysed mice walk again"},"content":{"rendered":"German researchers have enabled mice paralysed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the brain.Spinal cord injuries in humans, often caused by sports or traffic accidents, leave them paralysed because not all of the nerve fibres that carry information between muscles and the brain are able to grow back.But the researchers from Ruhr University Bochum managed to stimulate the\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3118746\/german-scientists-help-paralysed-mice-walk-again\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German researchers have enabled mice paralysed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the brain.Spinal cord injuries in humans, often &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11368,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11367\/revisions\/11368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}