Use polymer to cultivate a spine cell

US scientists have succeeded in cultivating functioning bone cells using only materials that are still used to make the popular Silly Putty toy.

These are polymer molecules - polydimethylciloxane. It is through these molecules that spinal cells work normally.

Scientists at the University of Michigan have found that motor nerves grow faster when immersed in polydimethylciloxane . During the experiment, scientists pressed embryonic stem cells into a soft 'carpet' of these polymer molecules.

After 23 days they found a forest of neuronal neurons, four times cleaner and 10 times larger than neurons cultivated in the still-used chambers in the laboratory.

In addition, these neurons have electrical activity comparable to motor neurons in the human body.

New technology opens up great possibilities in finding ways to cure neurological and brain function problems, including muscular atrophy (Charcot syndrome) and Alzheimer's disease.