{"id":5996,"date":"2023-06-15T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=5996"},"modified":"2023-06-15T10:44:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T14:44:49","slug":"recent-discoveries-from-trakhtenberg-lab-covered-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2023\/06\/15\/recent-discoveries-from-trakhtenberg-lab-covered-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent discoveries from Trakhtenberg lab covered in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/991045\">press release<\/a> on two recent research articles from Trakhtenberg lab,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/06\/new-nerve-insights-could-someday-heal-blindness\/\"><em>New insights into how axons grow could lead to effective therapies for blindness<\/em>,\u00a0<em>paralysis (by Kim Krieger, published in UConn Today)<\/em><\/a>, was covered in research news of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nei.nih.gov\/about\/news-and-events\/news\/new-nerve-insights-could-someday-help-heal-certain-types-blindness-and-paralysis\">NIH National Eye Institute<\/a>, which funded these studies, and in multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2023-05-nerve-insights-paralysis.html\">news outlets<\/a>. The articles revealed new insights into axonal regeneration and were published in <em>Development<\/em>, which also <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/dev\/article\/150\/8\/e150_e0804\/307395\/Oligodendrocytes-stop-regenerating-axons-reaching\">highlighted<\/a>\u00a0these\u00a0discoveries and selected the authors for a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.biologists.com\/dev\/article\/150\/8\/dev201870\/307314\/The-people-behind-the-papers-Jian-Xing-Agnieszka\">published interview<\/a>. Bruce Rheaume, Jian Xing, and Agnieszka Lukomska from Trakhtenberg lab shared first-authorship on both articles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2023\/04\/trakhtenberg-lab.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2023\/04\/trakhtenberg-lab-300x191.png\" alt=\"E Trakhtenberg lab\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5899 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2023\/04\/trakhtenberg-lab-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2023\/04\/trakhtenberg-lab.png 350w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/191;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2023\/04\/trakhtenberg-lab-300x191.png\" alt=\"E Trakhtenberg lab\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2023\/04\/trakhtenberg-lab-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2023\/04\/trakhtenberg-lab.png 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn Health press release on two recent research articles from Trakhtenberg lab,\u00a0New insights into how axons grow could lead to effective therapies for blindness,\u00a0paralysis (by Kim Krieger, published in UConn Today), was covered in research news of the\u00a0NIH National Eye Institute, which funded these studies, and in multiple news outlets. The articles revealed new insights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":5899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 22:39:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6000,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5996\/revisions\/6000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}