For the first time researchers restore feeling and lasting movement in man living with quadriplegia

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-08-movement-quadriplegia.amp

For the first time researchers restore feeling and lasting movement in man living with quadriplegia:: In a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, bioelectronic medicine researchers, engineers and surgeons at Northwell Health's The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research have successfully implanted microchips into the brain of a man living with paralysis, and have developed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to re-link his brain to his body and spinal cord.

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the_itsb@midwest.social · 58 pts · 3y

Can you even imagine how anyone involved felt?!? The exultation and relief of the researchers when they not only didn't accidentally kill their patient but fixed him, the mind-blowing reality that he can move again as it sinks into the patient's brain.... !!!! I cry about every overwhelming emotion, good or bad, and I don't think I'd be able to stop crying for weeks.

LichbaneLB@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Its Deus Ex time

Hubi@feddit.de · 13 pts · 3y

I ~~never~~ asked for this

Hupf@feddit.de · 25 pts · 3y

We can rebuild him, we have the technology.

Tandybaum@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 3y (5 replies)

This is 100% fucking amazing.

It’s straight up sci-fi movie level awesome.

SuperSleuth@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Dude and if that room-temp superconductor is practical, we're getting some crazy stuff in the next decade.

sigh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)