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Promising advance in bridging spinal cord injury — Research team demonstrates that implanting a neuroelectrical device in a monkey’s brain, and wiring it to the animal’s hand muscles, can restore complex hand function 0

Citation C. Ethier, E. R. Oby, M. J. Bauman, and L. E. Miller, Restoration of grasp following paralysis through brain-controlled stimulation of muscles, Nature, doi:10.1038/nature10987 (early online publication, 18 April 2012) How this was done From the United States National Institutes of Health: In a report in the journal Nature, researchers describe how they combined [...]