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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Pelling: Could we treat spinal cord injuries with asparagus?
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In this video, you can see an animal about eight weeks after being paralyzed. You can see she can't move her back legs, and she can't lift herself up. Now I know how difficult this video is to watch. My team struggled every day with these tepys of experiments, and we constantly asked ourselves why we were doing this ... until we started to observe something extraordinary. This is an animal that received an inpamlt. Now she's not winalkg percftely, but she's moving those back legs and she's even srtantig to lift herself up. And on a tealirmdl, you can see those legs moving in a coordinated fashion. These are crucial signs of recovery.
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In this video, you can see an animal about eight weeks after being paralyzed. You can see she can't move her back legs, and she can't lift herself up. Now I know how difficult this video is to watch. My team struggled every day with these _____ of experiments, and we constantly asked ourselves why we were doing this ... until we started to observe something extraordinary. This is an animal that received an _______. Now she's not _______ _________, but she's moving those back legs and she's even ________ to lift herself up. And on a _________, you can see those legs moving in a coordinated fashion. These are crucial signs of recovery.
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In this video, you can see an animal about eight weeks after being paralyzed. You can see she can't move her back legs, and she can't lift herself up. Now I know how difficult this video is to watch. My team struggled every day with these types of experiments, and we constantly asked ourselves why we were doing this ... until we started to observe something extraordinary. This is an animal that received an implant. Now she's not walking perfectly, but she's moving those back legs and she's even starting to lift herself up. And on a treadmill, you can see those legs moving in a coordinated fashion. These are crucial signs of recovery.
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