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Scientists in Canada announce the development of a new light “switch,” which has the ability to basically trigger paralysis from within the body of lab worms. All it takes for that to happen is a beam of ultraviolet light. As long as it shines, the animals remain immobilized, and can only move when the li... |
19 November 2009
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In a breakthrough accomplishment that could have significant implications for humans as well, experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to cure rats suffering from spinal-cord injuries, using nothing more than electrical stimulation, and a daily routine of exercises. The small rodents were... |
21 September 2009
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Experts from the University of Washington have recently managed a significant breakthrough in treating paralysis, when they have created a set of circuity that allows a monkey with a temporal disability in a wrist to move it. The circuits and wires, controlled by a central unit, bypassed a nerve that had been sedated... |
1 September 2009
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Experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) have recently created an innovative system of controlling wheelchairs that is surely going to benefit those who suffer from paraplegia and other forms of paralysis and cannot move on their own. They've created a driving system for the prosthetics that... |
7 July 2009
06:22 GMT |
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For amputees and paralysis victims, harnessing the power of brain impulses to control bionic limbs is about the only chance of getting at least some functions back in, or instead of, their paralyzed arms and legs. Until now, this was only possible by installing hair-thin electrodes in the brain, and by “in&rdqu... |
29 June 2009
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One of the most often met consequences of strokes is paralysis, either of a limb, or of an entire half of the body. In the most severe cases, the entire body could be rendered immobile, though these occurrences are a bit rarer. Now, researchers from the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, supported by the American P... |
15 June 2009
06:51 GMT |
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According to researchers at the Brown University, the new BrainGate system has entered its second large clinical test trial, which will further elaborate the positive results the system has obtained thus far. The BG system is made up of a small microchip, which is implanted in the brains of patients suffering from di... |
10 June 2009
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Potassium, calcium and mineral levels in people consuming large amounts of cola-based drinks have been plummeting over the years, with devastating consequences, new evidence shows. In a study published in the June issue of the International Journal of Clinical Practice, experts from the University of Ioannina, in Gre... |
20 May 2009
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Scuba diving is mostly known around the world for the fact that it can make people more relaxed, and more in tune with the calmness of the oceans. Floating near the bottom of the sea, with none of the familiar sounds of civilization ringing in their years, those who practice the sport say they feel a strange sensatio... |
11 May 2009
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Novel research fields seek to address the needs of people who are confined to a wheelchair for the remainder of their life, from robotic arms to aid the paraplegic, to robotic feet meant to help individuals who are paralyzed from the waist down finally get back on their feet.A former Army Rangers elite member who los... |
24 March 2009
05:16 GMT |
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Oddly shaped sperms or too few sperm cells are the factors that make men (in almost 50 % of the cases) the culprit for a couple's infertility. In many cases, this is due to genetic defects (mutations). Scientists believe they have discovered a gene which plays a critical role in the development of sperm. A team ... |
18 October 2007
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You may have issues with various internal organs, but an impaired brain is by far the most severe problem. A disabled brain might make you a 'vegetable'. This was the case with a man who got a severe brain injury six years ago, when he was badly beaten. The man was able to make just slight eye or finger mov... |
8 August 2007
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When lethal injection was proposed and accepted in 1977 by Oklahoma state medical examiner Jay Chapman as a human method of killing inmates, the word seemed to go out of the side of barbaric executions by hanging or electric chair. The shot is based on an anesthetic, ultrashort-acting sedative and a paralytic compoun... |
25 April 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Paralysis can keep people prisoners of their own bodies. It disables physically and mentally. Now, a new research at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, comes with great hope for paralyzed humans. A simple injection of biodegradable soap-like molecules triggered in six weeks nerve regeneration, correlated... |
23 April 2007
03:08 GMT |
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