Researchers restore breathing in rats paralysed from the neck down from a high cervical spinal cord injury, using a drug and a light therapy known as optogenetics, to harness an alternative nerve pathway for breathing in the spinal cord itself separate from the brain, as reported in Cell Reports.

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Researchers restore breathing in rats paralysed from the neck down from a high cervical spinal cord injury, using a drug and a light therapy known as optogenetics, to harness an alternative nerve pathway for breathing in the spinal cord itself separate from the brain, as reported in Cell Reports.