Roccati, age 31, is one of three men who received experimental spinal cord stimulators as part of a clinical trial. All three had completely paralyzed lower bodies. The results have been a stunning ...

A paralysis cure rests in an early study of an implant that brings an epidural electrical stimulation to a person's spinal cord and it already helped three men from walking again. The EPFL's study ...

(CN) — Researchers engineered and implanted functional human spinal cord tissues that showed success in treating paralysis in lab models. The study, published Monday in the journal Advanced Science, ...

With a zap of electricity from well-placed electrodes on the back of the neck, patients with tetraplegia can regain some modest yet potentially “life-changing” functioning of their hands and arms, ...

In 2018, Grégoire Courtine, PhD, associate professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and Jocelyne Bloch, MD, neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV), published ...

CHICAGO — Scientists say they've found a promising experimental treatment to repair the spinal cord after a severe injury. It could also work in people who have been paralyzed. The nanotechnology uses ...

Michel Roccati lost the ability to walk after a motorcycle accident in 2017, when he had a complete spinal cord injury.But today, equipped with an electrode device implanted on his spinal cord, ...

After a traumatic motorcycle collision in 2017, Michel Roccati was left completely paralyzed from the waist down. He couldn’t have imagined that a few years later, he would be walking through the ...

Scientists at the Sagol Center for Regenerative Biotechnology, the Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, and the department of biomedical engineering at Tel Aviv University have generated ...

A motorcycle crash left Michel Roccati with complete lower-body paralysis from a devastating spinal cord injury. That was in 2017. But now, the Italian native is walking again, courtesy of ...