Brain-Spine Implant: The Start of the End of Paralysis

brain-spine implant neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Source: https://www.nature.com/news/brain-implants-allow-paralysed-monkeys-to-walk-1.20967

A neuroscientist by the name of Grégoire Courtine, working out of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)), has spent over a decade creating a device that will act as an interface that will link the brain to the lower spinal column. This brain-spine implant will allow the user to circumvent their spinal column in order to stimulate any previously severed nerves and cause their limbs to move.

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