Antibody NG101 Promotes Nerve Regrowth Following Injury (opens in new tab)

Nerves are made up of bundled axons, the long connections between neurons, and so regeneration following injury involves new axons finding their way across the area of damage as they regrow, a process hampered in mammalian species by the formation of scar tissues. The antibody NG101 has long been known to promote regrowth of nerve tissue following damage. It has been a long road from the initial discovery a few decades ago to a recent clinical trial in patients with spinal cord injury. That t...