A team of neuroscientists at MIT have shown that wounds to the optical tract in the brains of young hamsters that were treated with a solution of water and a special ionic peptide, healed in 30 days. Untreated wounds did not heal at all. This experiment was significant for a number of reasons. It was the first time scientists had ever seen neurons grow back, in any animal, in a wounded area (usually neurons grow around the wound).
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