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With its ability to decipher a person's thoughts and turn them into words, this brand-new brain sensor could be a game-changer in the making
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New York-based startup Synchron creates a pioneering technology that enables paralyzed patients to control computers with their brains, thanks to an 8-mm stent, the "stentrode", implanted in the brain to detect neural activity. A Melbourne resident living with ALS, shares his thoughts with AFP, by using his eyes to pinpoint letters on a screen and "clicking" on words with his mind. Zafar Faraz, Synchron Field Clinical Engineer, Rodney Gorham, Stentrode user, Tom Oxley, Synchron CEO and Dr David Putrino who oversaw the medical trial at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York give us more details. Source: AFP
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Researchers at MIT have developed a new device that uses light to control nerve cells that are involved in the gut-brain communication path
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A new blood test developed by US researchers may fulfil a long-felt need to detect Alzheimer’s many years before the symptoms manifest. It may also benefit other diseases.

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