Two doctors help patients with spinal cord injuries walk again
A neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist discover promising new ways to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again ...
Elon Musk’s brain-chip trials expanding to Miami. Here’s how it works and what’s next
Musk’s startup company Neuralink has tapped the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine to be the second site in the ...
Elon Musk's Neuralink partners with local university for clinical trial
The university will become the second U.S.-based site for Neuralink's Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface (PRIME) study.
Man Demonstrates How He Drives with His Feet After Childhood Virus Paralyzed His Arms and Hands (Exclusive)
Nathan Spencer learned how to drive with his feet after a virus left his arms and hands paralyzed as a child, though he says, "I only ever learned by doing things with my feet." ...
Elon Musk's Neuralink partners with university for clinical trial
"The Miami Project and the University of Miami are renowned for their pioneering research in neural interfaces for the treatment of debilitating neurological conditions," Neuralink co-founder and COO ...
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Fatal neurodegenerative disease in kids also affects the bowel
His new work shows enteric neurons in two mouse models of Batten disease degenerate in the bowel, paralleling neurodegeneration long known to occur in brain and spinal cord. Cooper's prior ...
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Elon Musk’s brain-chip trials expanding to Miami. Here’s how it works and what’s next
The paralysis must be from a cervical spinal cord injury, or ALS ... Institute in Phoenix was able to control a computer mouse using thoughts. Since then, at least two other people have received ...
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Fatal neurodegenerative disease in kids also affects the bowel—gene therapy may help
His new work shows enteric neurons in two mouse models of Batten disease degenerate in the bowel, paralleling neurodegeneration long known to occur in the brain and spinal cord. Cooper's prior ...
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Could inhaling xenon gas help treat Alzheimer’s? A new mouse study suggests it might
But a new mouse study shows one possible use case for ... an immune cell that can be found in the spinal cord and the brain. During the course of Alzheimer’s, microglia have been shown to ...