Prosthetics technology is undergoing advances every bit as revolutionary as regenerative medicine – in many ways it is another path to the same end goals. Diversity is always a good sign in technological progress; many divergent efforts are more likely to produce widely applicable results over the long term. EurekAlert reports on one small part of this ongoing process: “We plan to spend this $6.7 million to further develop technology that we hope will someday help blind individuals see, allow paraplegics to stand and eventually walk, and let people with vocal cord problems speak … To go from a bundle of wires sticking out of somebody’s head to a totally implantable system that is invisible will be a major advance in this technology.”
View the Article Under Discussion: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-12/uou-mf122904.php
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