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by jgilias 1675 days ago
This, however, seems to suggest that the therapy actually reduces pre-existing scar tissue:

> the breakthrough therapy dramatically improved severely injured spinal cords in five key ways: (1) The severed extensions of neurons, called axons, regenerated; (2) scar tissue, which can create a physical barrier to regeneration and repair, significantly diminished;