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Title: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
Post by: anwar.swe on November 17, 2017, 09:58:30 PM
these technologies all have staying power. They will affect the economy and our politics, improve medicine, or influence our culture. Some are unfolding now; others will take a decade or more to develop. But you should know about all of them right now.

Reversing Paralysis
Scientists are making remarkable progress at using brain implants to restore the freedom of movement that spinal cord injuries take away.

Availability: 10 to 15 years

“Go, go!” was the thought racing through Grégoire Courtine’s mind.

The French neuroscientist was watching a macaque monkey as it hunched aggressively at one end of a treadmill. His team had used a blade to slice halfway through the animal’s spinal cord, paralyzing its right leg. Now Courtine wanted to prove he could get the monkey walking again. To do it, he and colleagues had installed a recording device beneath its skull, touching its motor cortex, and sutured a pad of flexible electrodes around the animal’s spinal cord, below the injury. A wireless connection joined the two electronic devices.

The result: a system that read the monkey’s intention to move and then transmitted it immediately in the form of bursts of electrical stimulation to its spine. Soon enough, the monkey’s right leg began to move. Extend and flex. Extend and flex. It hobbled forward. “The monkey was thinking, and then boom, it was walking,” recalls an exultant Courtine, a professor with Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
Title: Re: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
Post by: Raihana Zannat on December 18, 2017, 02:15:55 PM
Nice.
Title: Re: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
Post by: munira.ete on December 19, 2017, 05:50:32 PM
Nice
Title: Re: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2017
Post by: Samitchk on December 30, 2017, 06:02:12 PM
Informative
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Post by: safayet on March 02, 2018, 12:39:39 PM
Thanks