Source: Boston Globe / San Francisco Chronicle
Date: March 26, 2006
Summary:
The Boston Globe reports on an advance in nanotechnology that could heal brain damage:
"In work that might hold promise for victims of spinal cord and brain injuries, researchers report that they have managed to restore sight to blinded hamsters using a process they call nanoknitting. The work represents the first time that nanotechnology -- engineering on an ultra-tiny scale -- has been used to fix brain damage, said Rutledge Ellis-Behnke, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the lead researcher on the paper."
