Addressing challenges for repairing adult spinal cord with insights from neonates.

Stem cell therapy has emerged as a promising area of scientific investigation, sparking considerable interest, especially in spinal cord injury (SCI). Sun et al. ¹ discover that the extracellular matrix (ECM) from the neonatal spinal cord transmits biochemical signals to endogenous axons, thus promoting axonal regeneration.
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