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James Tour: How Did Life Come into Being?

Socrates in the City

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The Process of Severing the Spinal Cord of a Rat

Graphene provides a kind of armature over which the nerves that have been severed can regrow together. A 1% solution of graphene nanorevins in another polymer, we put that in the gap. And then what you do with the gap is you just open it and close it. Just by doing that, just by that action, it gives you something called shear flow. It's like logs in a lake. They all organize with the shear... So just by opening and closing it, it organizes in line with the spinal cord.

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