Researchers Use Brain Implant to Make Paralyzed Monkeys Walk
by The Daily Eye Team November 12 2016, 12:03 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 28 secsBetween 255,000-600,000 Americans can’t walk because of paraplegia, or leg paralysis usually linked to spinal damage. But Tomislav Milekovic, a researcher at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and his colleagues have managed to get paralyzed monkeys to do just that according to a new study in Nature. Using a brain–spine interface, Milekovic successfully made two paralyzed rhesus monkeys walk. In the process they’ve leaped another hurdle in the journey to increase mobility in humans with spinal cord injuries.