New therapies are on the horizon for individuals paralyzed following spinal cord injury. The e-Dura implant developed by EPFL scientists can be applied directly to the spinal cord without causing damage and inflammation. The device is described in an article appearing online Jan. 8, 2015, in Science magazine.
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Ref: Electronic dura mater for long-term multimodal neural interfaces. Science, January 2015 DOI:10.1126/science.1260318
Flexible implant e-Dura can be applied long term to the spinal cord or brain to help those with paralysis
