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Growing Neural Implants
Conductive polymer coatings that weave their way into implanted tissue might one day improve the performance of medical implants, such as cochlear implants and brain stimulators used to treat...
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Bionic ‘super lenses’ that correct long AND short-sightedness developed
Bionic implants that promise to give 45-year-olds the vision of someone 20 years younger could be available in just five years. The ‘super lenses’ will correct both long and short-sightedness,...
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Paws for thought: Pet dog fitted with £10,000 bionic leg
A beloved pet bulldog has been fitted with a £10,000 bionic leg, which will help advance prosthetic techniques used to help bombing victims. Coal, an eight-and-a-half year old hound had his left paw...
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Beyond Nano Breakthrough, MIT Team Quietly Builds Virus-Based Batteries
In a surprise development that could have implications for powering electronics, cars and even the military, researchers at MIT have created the world’s first batteries constructed at the nano scale...
View ArticleNanodiamond drug device could transform cancer treatment
A Northwestern University research team has developed a promising nanomaterial-based biomedical device that could be used to deliver chemotherapy drugs locally to sites where cancerous tumors have been...
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Single Neuron Un-Paralyzes Monkeys in Test
Research are finding that rerouting nerve signals in primates may be surprisingly easy DailyTech previously covered how monkeys had been wired with brain probes to a mechanical arm, which they learned...
View ArticleBrain implant allows mute man to speak
An electrode implanted into the brain of a man who is unable to move or communicate has enabled him to use a speech synthesizer to produce vowel sounds as he thinks them. The work could one day help...
View ArticleExtinct animals could be brought back to life thanks to advances in DNA...
The idea of resurrecting extinct animals moved a step closer to reality last year when scientists announced that they had decoded almost all of the genome of the woolly mammoth, from 60,000-year-old...
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Researchers develop ‘wireless’ activation of brain circuits
And it’s a unique collaboration between chemists and neuroscientists that led to the discovery of a remarkable new way to use light to activate brain circuits with nanoparticles. Ben Strowbridge, an...
View ArticleFDA Allows Brain Implants for Obsessions
By manipulating the magnetization of a liquid solution, the researchers have for the first time coaxed magnetic and non-magnetic materials to form intricate nano-structures. The resulting structures...
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