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Here’s what the literature does not clearly support (at least not publicly, or not at the level claimed):

A. I could not find a peer-reviewed study (from MIT or elsewhere, publicly available) showing a single injectable gel that alone (without surgery) fully restores lost sensation and motor function after severe nerve injury (especially spinal injury or chronic nerve pain) in large-animal or human models.

B. The language “fully restore lost sensation and motor function after treatment” is very strong. Most current studies report improved regeneration, axon growth, functional recovery to a degree—but not typically complete return to normal in clinical human settings.

C. The part of the claim that this would apply broadly to “paralysis, spinal injuries, and chronic nerve pain” via a “simple injection” is not substantiated in the literature I found. Most work is still preclinical, early-stage.

D. The social-media post attributes the research to MIT, but I found no direct MIT press release or MIT-lab publication that matches exactly the claim (i.e., a gel with that full described effect in the post). The closest MIT-work is about injectable hydrogels for drug delivery or hydrogel platforms for spinal cord injury delivery vehicles—not a completed “nerve regenerative gel” ready for broad translation.