Saturday, January 22, 2011

Mei developed neural tissue and prosthetic connection technology

United States University of Pennsylvania researchers recently announced that they will be persons of nerve tissue and electrode connection, developed a neural tissue and controlled prosthetic sections technology, this is false limbs of significant progress.

Researchers in the development of this novel prosthetic technology, first introduced with undamaged nervous tissue to pass information to the artificial limb and their key is: we must guarantee the artificial limb and bi-directional links between the brain, that is, the brain's neural signals must be converted to artificial limb movement, and prostheses in the signal sensing systems, such as temperature and pressure, should ensure that feedback to the brain. To this end, researchers find portable living neural tissue, so that it is connected with electrodes and electrode will not touch the other end of the neural tissue implant in the nervous system, used to secure their delivery to the electrode signal.

It is reported that researchers use the cultivation of neurons process approach, the development of the hybrid neural tissue. As the neurons process in between the two electrodes to the desired length of the telescopic, researchers in the development of medium with an electronic microchip replaces one electrode.

Currently, researchers are testing their manufacture of electrical activity of neurons, and plan to use it to recover the damage to the nervous system in experimental animal muscle function, and then make the neurons in clinical trials.

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