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In a groundbreaking new study, a team of Australian investigators was able to develop a new method of addressing spinal cord injuries in animals. Their progress, if translatable to humans, could lead to the development of treatments that would cure thousands of people suffering from paralysis.
The condition has mult... |
16 November 2011
04:42 GMT |
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The US National Science Foundation (NSF) is currently funding a number of scientific researches aimed at restoring some of the lost functionality to people who are completely paralyzed, or who suffer from degenerative diseases. This will be accomplished through brain-computer interfaces. The NSF Center of Excellence ... |
17 October 2011
17:01 GMT |
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For many years, experts have been suggesting that robots be used as personal assistants, especially to people with disabilities. While technological and engineering challenges still remain, that goal is now closer than ever, thanks to recent innovations achieved by various research teams.Only recently, a man named He... |
19 July 2011
04:14 GMT |
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Restoring at least partial function to paralyzed limbs has been a goal for researchers for many years, and now experts at the University of Michigan (U-M) have made an important step in this direction. They created a device that will ultimately enable the paralyzed to walk again. The new neurological technology is st... |
24 June 2011
05:20 GMT |
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A team of experts at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have been working for the past couple of years on developing an automated exoskeleton, to be used by paralyzed individuals to walk.The machine will be introduced to the public for the first time tomorrow, when graduating senior Austin Whitney will ra... |
13 May 2011
04:54 GMT |
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Officials from the biotech company Cyberkinetics and the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University (BU) announce that a brain-computer interface (BCI) implant that they installed in a patient more than 1,000 days ago is still operational.This is a tremendous achievement for the collaboration, which seeks to deve... |
25 March 2011
11:12 GMT |
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A new drug therapy could improve the lives of people having suffered a stroke or a head injury, by restoring the mobility of paralyzed arms and legs by up to half, found two University of Otago and UCLA researchers, that have been carrying out a study on the matter for the past two and a half years.They have been wor... |
5 November 2010
08:48 GMT |
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Officials at the X Prize Foundation, the same that is being joined by Google in supporting the Lunar X Prize competition, announce that they are seriously considering partnering up with other groups to create the Brain X Prize. The main goal of the competition would be to award the science team that manages to develo... |
25 October 2010
03:31 GMT |
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A team of scientists has recently been awarded a three-year grant totaling about $469,000, for developing a construct known as a “brain-computer interface.”There are basically devices that enable direct communications between neurons and nerve fibers in the human body and electronic instruments such as co... |
12 October 2010
04:15 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Irvine (UCI) announce the development of a method of using human neural stem cells to heal chronic spinal cord injuries in mouse models. The therapy is apparently able to restore mobility in animals that suffered serious injuries in their spines, the team explains. The fi... |
20 August 2010
03:44 GMT |
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For many years, severe spinal cord injuries were synonymous to paralysis, and living a life in the wheelchair. Intense trauma to the cord, the variety that ripped apart nerve connections, meant that electrical signals from the brain no longer reached their destinations. Now, thanks to a collaboration of researchers, ... |
9 August 2010
04:40 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Imec and the Holst Center unveiled today the Mind Speller prototype. This instrument is an advanced, EEG(electro-encephalogram)-based device that is capable of accurately interpreting brain waves and producing representations of people's t... |
23 March 2010
11:28 GMT |
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People who suffer traumatic injuries to their neck or spinal cord oftentimes remain paralyzed, unable to walk ever again. For these individuals, there may still be hope in alleviating their condition, if we are to trust a new study by researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet. In experiments they co... |
22 January 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Artificial muscle technology is a relatively new area of investigations, but one that promises a great deal of tangible results and innovation. Just recently, experts from the University of California in Davis (UCD) announced that they managed to develop a new method of allowing paralysis patients to blink. The findi... |
18 January 2010
05:44 GMT |
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Helmets are touted by everyone from children riding their bicycles to professional drivers as a means of averting injuries to the head. While, at times, they fulfill this purpose, existing helmets do little to protect the neck from injuries. This throws a constant shadow on the protection devices, as neck injuries of... |
6 January 2010
06:05 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania are currently working on a new approach to producing resilient transplants. The method involves mechanically stretching living nerve cells inside a special, custom-built machine. The goal of this investigation is to produce new treatments for conditions that are currently ... |
22 December 2009
07:05 GMT |
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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
07:00 GMT |
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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
02:58 GMT |
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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
05:50 GMT |
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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
03:27 GMT |
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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
09:33 GMT |
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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
05:01 GMT |
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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
09:11 GMT |
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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
13:06 GMT |
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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
14:06 GMT |
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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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