Healing Spinal Cord Injuries By Reprogramming Cells
Researchers at UT Southwestern and Indiana University led by Chun-Li Zhang, Ph.D., professor of molecular biology at UT Southwestern, are proposing a method of harnessing the Sox2 stem cell protein known to proliferate after a spinal cord injury to promote healing. Genetic engineering allowed the team to reprogram specific NG2 glia cells to overproduce Sox2 …