The Bionic Breast Project is an interdisciplinary research program applying bionic technologies to restore post-mastectomy breast function. Using some of the concepts developed for the bionic hand, the researchers, including Sliman Bensmaia, PhD, James and Karen Frank Family Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, plan to embed a flexible sensor array under the skin of mastectomy patients.
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All of us age, and as we do, myelin, the protective covering around the nerve cells in our brain, starts to deteriorate. This is like losing the insulation around an electrical wire. It causes nerve impulses to slow or even stop, and affects a range of bodily functions from thinking, memory, and behavior to balance and coordination. But this does not have to be the case.
COVID-19 has thrown a monkey-wrench into all our lives.
Some of us have shifted our work home. We may be dealing with living spaces that suddenly seem much too small, quandaries about how to keep children engaged, frustratingly slow internet. We are the lucky ones.
As state and local officials pleaded for residents to stay at home in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, many included a caveat: You can still enjoy the outdoors, as long as you can maintain a safe social distance. But the recent closures did not disperse crowds so much as move them outside. And when people flocked instead to beaches, parks and hiking trails, officials began to shut those places down too.
Samuel L Jackson, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, and even current presidential candidate Joe Biden—stuttered or stammered as children. While the vast majority overcome childhood stuttering, the embarrassment and bullying the condition elicits can leave long-lasting anxiety regarding speaking in social situations.
How the brain functions like a car with a manual transmission, and why this finding one day could lead to a treatment for Parkinson's disease.
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