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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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You’re watching one of the hundreds of movies you have watched over the years where friends and families anxiously await the arrival of their loved-ones at an airport. There’s the mandatory shot of the airplane approaching from the distance, it hangs momentarily over the runway and then finally touches down,
One of the big challenges to homeschoolers is providing for lab classes such as AP physics. There are suppliers like Pasco that supply most of the lab equipment you find in high school and college classrooms. But their prices are prohibitive for home schooling families.
In this era of fast growing medical and health facilities, there are still a considerable amount of people who are paraplegic; they are either born or became so in their lifetime. These people find it very difficult to move from one place to another or need to depend on others most of the time for the same.
With the Supreme Court's recent upholding of National Health Care, and the possibility that medical attention could be severely restricted or even withheld – options are essential. Now is the time to introduce a Quantum Leap in health care.
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The increasing technological developments have called for increasing production of equipment governed by micro-processors and micro-controllers as part of the strategy of counting. In the field of micro-processor RISC & CISC technologies are the bases for the development of any calculation involving equipment such as PCs, Smartphones, ATMs and any embedded computing. However,
Overall the C-Sight visual prosthesis is based on optic nerve stimulation with a penetrating electrode array. The goal of the project is to produce a feasible and realiable, low-cost solution to those with visual impairment. The feasibility of this concept was demonstrated with the results of the animal experiments.
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