US scientists may have discovered why long nerve cells do not break when you move or stretch your limbs.Experiments in worms showed that when a protein called beta spectrin is missing, nerve cells are brittle and break, leading to paralysis.
US scientists may have discovered why long nerve cells do not break when you move or stretch your limbs.Experiments in worms showed that when a protein called beta spectrin is missing, nerve cells are brittle and break, leading to paralysis.
