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Brain to spine traansplants has great potential for about 50 million pople — The first ever brain to spine interface has been implanted by Fudan University. (Picture: dierk schaefer (CC BY 2.0))

Four patients with spinal cord damage are up and walking again, with support, after receiving a groundbreaking brain-to-spine implant in China.

There are 50 million people worldwide that suffers from some sort of spinal cord injuries, marking the potential for this novel technique, and so far the results are very positive.

AI to translate signals
The neural implant «translates» signals from the brain to the spinal cord using Ai, and was developed by scientists from The Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence at Fudan University, they write in a release.

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