ni Jasmin Joy Evangelista | November 16, 2021
Nakaimbento ang mga scientist mula sa Northwestern University ng injectable therapy na tinatawag na "dancing molecule” kung saan maaari umanong makagalaw ang mga paralisado sa pamamagitan nito.
Sa report ng Reuters, matagumpay daw na muling napalakad ang isang paralisadong bubuwit gamit ang dancing molecules.
“Spinal cord injury has been a major challenge for science for decades,” ayon kay Samuel Stupp, ng nangunguna sa isinasagawang pagsasaliksik ng Northwestern University.
“The central nervous system, which includes the brain and the spinal cord, which sends messages between your brain and the rest of your body, has very limited capacity to repair after injury,” paliwanag niya.
Sa kanilang pag-aaral, makaraan lang ang apat na linggo matapos maturukan ay nagawa raw ng “dancing molecules” na i-reverse ang paralysis sa bubuwit at nagamot nito ang severe spinal cord injuries.
“This is probably the most important paper I have ever written. And it describes a piece of science that was truly unknown," patuloy ni Stupp.
Ang proseso, ituturok ang likidong "dancing molecules" sa gulugod ng pasyente.
“When molecules did not move or move very little, then the response we observed in the animals was just the slight twitching of the limbs. But no ability to walk. When we use the exact same therapy, the exact same signals, but we molecularly change the structures so that the molecules would move more. Now we saw full ability of the animals to walk," paliwanag niya.
Matapos na ilathala sa journal Science ang kanilang pag-aaral, nais ng mga siyentista ng Northwestern team na mabigyan sila ng pahintulot na subukan na ito sa tao at huwag nang dumaan sa pagsubok sa malalaking hayop.
"We are definitely headed for the FDA to seek approval for use of our novel therapy in clinical trials, and we are very excited about this possibility that will make a huge difference to patients," aniya.
