by Kimberly Houston | November 16, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
If you’re among the millions of viewers who’ve tuned into the Netflix hit “Stranger Things,” you’ve seen the character Eleven use her telekinetic powers to liberate herself and her friends from the Hawkins lab goons, all using the power of her mind....
by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2017 | General News, Medical
Growing need drives exoskeleton development. Wheelchair-bound patients including paraplegics, people with spinal cord injuries, and stroke victims stand highest on the list of potential beneficiaries of exoskeleton technology. We’ve written about work in...
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by Bruce Brown | November 10, 2016 | General News, Medical
It takes a village to make a monkey walk again. Swiss scientists in collaboration with a host of others have used a neuroprosthesis to enable paralyzed primates to walk within two weeks of spinal injury. One monkey learned to walk again within six days. We’re...
by Alfred Poor | October 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
The human body is a complex array of systems and feedback loops that help us function. Sometimes those systems need a little assist to work properly. One common solution is to administer drugs to encourage or discourage the operation of one function or another....
by Alfred Poor | September 2, 2015 | Medical
The vocabulary word for today is “optogenetics.” It refers to a process that uses light to control living neurons that are light-sensitive. The neurons contain photosensitive proteins, either through selective breeding or through the use of viruses that...
