Israel Helping The Paralyzed To Walk

[JStone]

Warren Buffett

If you go to the Middle East looking for oil, you don't need to stop in Israel. But, if you're looking for brains, for energy, for integrity, for imagination, it's the only stop you need to make"
Warren Buffet on Israel - YouTube

Israeli Exoskeleton Company Enables Paralyzed People To Walk
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmtN1KEguA]Israeli Exoskeleton Suit Enables Paralyzed People To Walk (All Credits are for Infolive.tv) - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAKFlpdcfc]Applause - YouTube[/ame]

 

[MJB12741]

Israel's contributions to peace, mankind & civilization are endless. Quite remarkable considering what Israel has for neighbors to bring Israel down.

Warren Buffett

If you go to the Middle East looking for oil, you don't need to stop in Israel. But, if you're looking for brains, for energy, for integrity, for imagination, it's the only stop you need to make"
Warren Buffet on Israel - YouTube

Israeli Exoskeleton Company Enables Paralyzed People To Walk
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LmtN1KEguA]Israeli Exoskeleton Suit Enables Paralyzed People To Walk (All Credits are for Infolive.tv) - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxAKFlpdcfc]Applause - YouTube[/ame]

 

[High_Gravity]

Cool stuff, good on Israel.

 

[ima]

Maybe now they can start to work on getting JStone's brain to function properly.

JS, just one question: are all Israelis obnoxious or is it just you?

 

[JStone]

Warren Buffett

If you go to the Middle East looking for oil, you don't need to stop in Israel. But, if you're looking for brains, for energy, for integrity, for imagination, it's the only stop you need to make"

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbX60Pktzsk]Warren Buffet on Israel - YouTube[/ame]

 

[ima]

So according to the fat man, it's just you. Ok.

 

[JStone]

Winston Churchill...

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.


The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
Amazon.com]Amazon.com: The River War (9781598184259): Sir Winston S. Churchill: Books

"We Desire Death Like You Desire Life"
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWIDZ7Jpdqg]Hamas - "We desire death like you desire life" - YouTube[/ame]

 

[waltky]

Might one day help repair crippling damage to central nervous system...

Scientists Find Key Protein in Limb-Nerve Repair
June 22, 2012 - Researchers have identified a protein that's essential for the regrowth of nerves responsible for movement and sensation in injured limbs. They hope the finding might some day make it possible to repair crippling damage to other parts of the central nervous system.

Scientists have long known that severed nerves in the arms and legs have the ability to regenerate after they have been been surgically reattached. But until now, the mechanisms underlying that regrowth have been poorly understood. Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, discovered that a protein, called dual-leucine zipper kinase (DLK), plays a key role in repairing the long, thin nerve fibers, or axons, that extend several meters from the nerve cell body within the spinal cord to so-called peripheral nerves in the limbs.

Developmental biology professor Aaron DiAntonio, who studies how the nervous system responds to injury, says that when a peripheral nerve is damaged, DLK signals the nucleus of its nerve cell - the nerve's "brain" in effect, at the other end of the axon in the spinal cord - to turn on its regeneration program. In their experiments with mice, DiAntonio and his team discovered that when DLK is not present, the injury message is not relayed to the nerve cell body, its regeneration mechanism is not turned on and axonal regrowth is stalled.

DiAntonio believes this new understanding of DLK's role opens up a range of possibilities for repairing nerve damage not just in the limbs but throughout the central nervous system. "The first place one might be able to apply it would be in the peripheral nervous system. So, we just have to turn on something that already exists," DiAntonio says. "Bigger picture, longer term, of more importance if it worked, would be in the central nervous system, where first we would have to ask, 'Is it just a non-funtional nervous system?' And if it is, how would we turn it on?"

The researcher notes that the DLK nerve repair mechanism does not work in other nerves throughout the central nervous system, since damage to the spinal cord usually results in paralysis. Instead, the researcher believes, the central nervous system's role may be simply to monitor and relay DLK's damage signals from peripheral nerves. "And if that's the case, then if we can - and we don't know how to do this yet - but if we could figure out how to turn on this injury-signalling system now that we've identified it, we can look to see if it's in the central nervous system and are there ways to activate it," he says.

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