Artificial Spinal Cord Wirelessly Restores Walking in Paralyzed Monkeys
“Until a few years ago, reversing paralysis was the stuff of movie miracles.
Yet according to Dr. Andrew Jackson, a neuroscientist at Newcastle University in the UK, as early as the end of this decade, we may witness patients with spinal cord injuries regain control of their own two legs and walk again.
By implanting a wireless neural prosthetic into the spinal cord of paralyzed monkeys, a team led by Dr. Grégoire Courtine at the Swiss Federal institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanna, Switzerland achieved the seemingly impossible: the monkeys regained use of a paralyzed lower limb, a mere six days after their initial injury without requiring any training…”
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