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Rock musician Jesse Malin, whose hardcore band was famously banned from “Saturday Night Live” in 1981, suffered a rare spinal stroke earlier this year, causing him to be paralyzed from the…

Gert-Jan Oskam was living in China in 2011 when he was in a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the hips down. Now, with a combination of devices, scientists have given him…

Researchers have developed a new type of neural implant that could restore limb function to amputees and others who have lost the use of their arms or legs. In a study carried out in rats,…

“This is very exciting,” says Jason Carmel, a motor system neuroscientist at Columbia University who wasn’t involved in the study. “It opens up a potential treatment avenue that we’ve never…

For a long and frustrating third day, divided Republicans kept the speaker’s chair of the US House sitting empty Thursday, as party leader Kevin McCarthy failed again…

Qatar 2022 seemed like the perfect moment for Brazil, but it all came crashing down as they lost to Croatia in their quarter-finals. With the score tied at 1-1 in regulation time with the…

Therapeutic community gardening helped reduce loneliness as the pandemic paralysed the nation, University of Essex research has revealed. A study that unfolded across three years of the…

A research assistant prepares a PCR reaction for polio at a lab at Queens College on August 25, 2022, in New York City.Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty ImagesWhen a young adult in a New York City…

Electrical stimulation of surviving nerves of the upper spinal cord damaged by severe injury can improve motor control of the upper limb and allow individuals with limited arm function to…

Partially paralyzed, the man makes subtle motions with his right and left fists at certain prompts, such as "select cut location", so that the machine slices off a bite-sized piece. Now:…