A HARSH DECREE: Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated :The Scientist [2007-04-01]


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A HARSH DECREE: Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated It's 1991, 63 years after Santiago Ramon y Cajal, a histologist, neuroanatomist, and Nobel prize winner, wrote in his 1928 book, Degeneration and Regeneration in the Nervous System: "In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. It is for the science of the future to change, if