• Question: how do you repair brains

    Asked by anon-173974 to Yewande, Carl, Hayley, Melanie, Tim on 11 Jun 2018.
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      Yewande Oyekenu answered on 11 Jun 2018:


      Damaged brains need to be fixed. The use of cell therapy is promising and involves the transfer of good brain cells to replace damaged portions. It, however, is a process that is challenging due to Medical laws like Obtaining Ethical Approval.

      Otherwise, you can technically measure the amount of damaged brain, grow new cells obtained from the good portion of the brain of from a newborn brain as they develop rapidly and then when it is large enough at least of reasonable size, you attach it to the brain after taking out the bad brain part. It is like Brain Engineering. I grow brain cells for 14days maximum but have not been able to transplant to humans yet but working on this.

      Brains can also be repaired by a compound which I use called Nitric oxide. In stroke cases, this compound has been found useful as an alternative to oxygen but this experiment is more in animals and not yet fully established in humans. The compound can be inhaled just like oxygen but the right amount that will repair the brain and not cause further injury is what I am trying to discover,

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