How your spider senses really could be tingling
The Sunday Mirror|April 16, 2023
Arachnids' silk to repair nerve damage & help cancer patients
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How your spider senses really could be tingling

SPIDERS and worms are the superheroes delivering a life-changing nerve treatment that will help tens of thousands of trauma and cancer patients.

Film fans are used to hearing web-slinger Spider-Man declare: "My spider sense is tingling."

And now, silk from the actual creepy-crawlies is being made into tiny tubes that bridge gaps between damaged nerves.

The existing treatment does not always work and means sacrificing a nerve elsewhere in the body.

But with the new technique men having prostate cancer surgery no longer have to worry GG about erectile dysfunction and incontinence.

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