Nerves in Cancer, MS and Pain - Naked Scientists NewsFLASH - 27.09.10

09/27/10 • 17 min

In this NewsFlash, we'll hear how the process of nerve repair could help some cancers to spread, how Multiple Sclerosis does more damage to nerve cells than we thought, and what mechanism might be behind phantom limb pain. Plus we'll discover that it was gorillas that first gave us Malaria!

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