A spinal cord is more complicated - obviously.

Spinal nerves are a completely different beast than peripheral nerves. The latter do regrow on their own, slowly. The former don't.

I got my hopes up. :( I have a syrinx.

Mine's right below the tumor that caused it. Neurological crap is some of the worst crap.

There is a huge difference between repairing trauma damage and repairing a clean planned surgical cut.

These guys aren't planning to repair a surgical cut, they're planning to graft the spinal cords of two different bodies together.

Maybe they should try to fix a regular decapitation first. Put the head back on the same body and prove that most of the nervous connections still work.. Even that would be worthy of a Nobel prize in medicine.

Spinal cords? We're just missing a *CONCEPT* somewhere, a molecule, a messenger, INFORMATION.

The same is true for curing cancer, every genetic disorder, and every viral disease.

Also, we don't even know if a solution exists.

I hope their steering is better than that

Do heart transplants involve cutting the organ in halft and putting it back together?

This isn't like pursuing heart transplants before being able to fix each and every heart defect. It's like pursuing heart transplants before being able to do surgical sutures.

Right now, we can't even repair spinal cord injuries where head and body belong to the same person. Once that becomes a routine medical procedure, we might think about head transplants and how to solve the problems associated with them.

Seriously, are the people who cleam this serious? I don't think so.

Eggs used to be sold as "small", "medium", or "large" in the UK. Then the marketing guys rebranded "small" as "medium", "medium" as "large", and "large" as "extra large".

Well after the first time we hated the idea of a change

Reminds me of a competition to program a computer player for the classic Asteroids a few years ago.

The best entries, however, didn't rely on AI, but on the fact that the RNG of the arcade game isn't random. Once the Asteroids-bot figured out the internal state of the RNG, it could basically use hyperspace to make targetted jumps (and never one that lead to the destruction of the ship), shoot at asteroids that haven't appeared yet and various other tricks. It was very impressive to watch one of these bots in action.

You're a dick. Or a troll. Or both. No wonder you're posting as AC. The only rule in life is that there are no rules. You make your own path and the wisdom others seek to enforce on you isn't worth shit against the wisdom you earn for yourself. I've met plenty of people of all ages, male and female, who for one reason or another haven't had access to the same life choices as the rest of us. The best people the OP's daughter will ever meet will be people who don't fit in, who make mistakes, who have regrets, and I choose to post that not as an AC because that's how the world works, not how you're bitter little worldview makes it appear.

The best advice I would give to her is to live her life. Make her mistakes. Don't be like the rest of us and don't be told that's the only path she can take. The worst sin in life is follow in someone else's footsteps. I did and it certainly didn't make me happy.

What if I wear a glove and server alcohol to a minor? Are the gloves responsible? The same with a robot

A work colleague used to do the same regularly the other way round, only he lived 300m higher than the city. He'd come in as fresh as a breeze even in hot weather, but say he got really good exercise on the way home!

If being mentally incompetent was grounds for being dismissed as an MP the chambers would be almost empty

This is the most sensible Tory policy on the NHS that I have heard for a long time ...... sad but true