By <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/radhika-puttagunta-121956/profile_bio">Radhika Puttagunta </a>& <a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/simone-di-giovanni-121957/profile_bio">Simone Di Giovanni -</a><br><br>Spinal cord injuries are currently irreparable. When nerve fibres in the central nervous system are damaged there is, as yet, no way of reversing this. But research we’ve been doing has led to the discovery of a mechanism for regrowing damaged nerve fibres.<br><br>A new study, published in <a href="http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140401/ncomms4527/full/ncomms4527.html">Nature Communications</a>, highlights the role of a protein called PCAF, which seems to successfully trigger a series of chemical and genetic events that allow nerves to regenerate.<br><br><a href="https://theconversation.com/new-discovery-gives-hope-to-spinal-injury-patients-25107">READ MORE ON THE CONVERSATION</a>
