Sentences with phrase «prosthesis in»

Loudin and his team are currently testing the prosthesis in live rats and ultimately aim to move on to clinical trials in humans.

But the fit is poor, with less than 40 per cent of the prosthesis in contact with the bone, and the force surgeons use sometimes causes the femur to fracture.

The first prosthesis in the world that connects directly to the bone, nerves and muscles, allows the person to experience sensations, free mobility and is handled using the mind.

Waite hopes the byssus structures could reveal a successful formula for a stronger, more flexible tendon to serve as a prosthesis in humans.

The prosthesis in his hip can break.

He and former Harvard Medical School colleague Clay Reid first described their research into visual prostheses in a paper published last May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Additionally, more than 1100 patients have consented to participate in a postmortem retrieval program, allowing for the retrieval of their joint prostheses in surrounding bone and the collection of various organ samples at the time of their death.

Entities that correlate to out bodies and minds, working has prostheses in our every day habitat, where speed of a post-digital generation dictates time and artificially replaces the natural / analogic world.

Not exact matches

There are also panel discussions ranging from the sci - fi (Bionic Organs: Prostheses to Cyborgs) to the practical (Innovation in the Aviation Industry) to the banal (Regional Tech Development Priorities and International Collaboration).

Computers installed in the prostheses intercept signals from the wearer's nerves and translate them into commands for motors.

Dong and his team tested their «memory prosthesis» by implanting the device in 20 patients who were already having brain implants placed to treat their epilepsy.

Nurtured by mother cow I have no idea how a clunky knee can stop your breath in pure pain, unstring you as with a nerve - chop, millions have jumped at prostheses: a week, and they hip - hop delightedly.

She stands up in a friend's living room in Washington, D.C.. She's not wearing her prosthesis.

The stem of the prosthesis is fixed in the thigh bone in the manner of corking a bat: A shaft is cut into the end of the bone, and the stem is inserted.

He is pushing the known limits of his prosthesis so intently that «he's in uncharted waters,» says White Sox trainer Herm Schneider.

The material is also tried and tested in other areas of medicine, such as in dentistry in the production of precision models or in orthopaedic technology to create both internal and external prostheses.

Researchers from the University of Houston have demonstrated how brain activity is used to identify different terrains — level ground and stairs, for example — a key step in developing prosthetics that allow the user's prosthesis to automatically adjust to changing ground conditions in real time.

Sliman Bensmaia at the University of Chicago, Illinois, has restored a sense of touch in macaques by routing signals from a prosthesis directly to the brain.

«Our novel framework for AAD bridges the gap between the most recent advancements in speech processing technologies and speech prosthesis research and moves us closer to the development of realistic hearing aid devices that can automatically and dynamically track a user's direction of attention and amplify an attended speaker.»

This pattern is then translated into actual movement in the prosthesis.

Are there ways in which the prosthesis makes things easier than having two regular hands?

For the Italian group, and for all others involved in research on advanced prostheses, the method provides a new tool for exploring the sensations the prostheses can provide.

One example, developed in collaboration with Professor Gill Pratt of Olin College in Needham, Massachusetts, is a leg prosthesis with a computer - controlled knee.

The prosthesis proposed by John Pezaris, an assistant in neuroscience at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston — at least as it's envisioned at this early stage — would be worn like a pair of eyeglasses, with digital cameras over a person's eyes that connect to an array of electrodes implanted in the brain.

Once a runner on blades accelerates to top speed, one potential advantage lies in the ability to move the prostheses faster and with less effort — because the blades weigh less than a competitor's lower legs and feet.

«You can't underestimate the scope of the problem, particularly as the population gets older,» says James Morrison, a physiologist and principal investigator in the Retinal Prosthesis Group at the University of Glasgow's Institute of Biomedical and Life Sciences.

«It's difficult to say at the moment,» says Diane Lazard, «but the idea is also to be able to spot in advance the people who will have a propensity for the written stimulus and to offer them active means for remaining with orality, particularly with auditory prostheses and speech therapy used much earlier than is currently practised.»

In March Grabowski, Kram and research associate Paolo Taboga reported in The Journal of Experimental Biologythat athletes with a left leg prosthesis are at a disadvantage in track events of 200 meters or morIn March Grabowski, Kram and research associate Paolo Taboga reported in The Journal of Experimental Biologythat athletes with a left leg prosthesis are at a disadvantage in track events of 200 meters or morin The Journal of Experimental Biologythat athletes with a left leg prosthesis are at a disadvantage in track events of 200 meters or morin track events of 200 meters or more.

Because the new devices are substantially more complex than standard prostheses, the clinicians will need additional training in robotics, the authors point out.

Rehm is now part of an IAAF working group studying prosthesis use in athletic competition, in hopes of competing in the 2017 IAAF World Championships.

Hugh Herr is a classically understated, yet obviously determined, researcher and inventor whose work in novel prostheses and orthotics design and human motion study appears boundless.

In this case, a company that designs active - function artificial finger prostheses for partial - finger amputees needed high - resolution, 3 - D scans of two small hand casts.

Paralympic long jump champ Markus Rehm's bid to compete in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics fell short in July when he could not prove that his carbon - fiber «blade» prosthesis didn't give him an advantage.

In the article, Goldfarb and graduate students Brian Lawson and Amanda Shultz describe the technological advances that have made robotic prostheses viable.

But it is able to adjust the amount of power the prosthesis receives in real time, in order to maintain the proper angle.

They're interested in prostheses now from the point of view of the soldiers who've been injured in Iraq.

The lab designed a prosthesis that uses a technique called electromyography to pick up on electrical signals in the upper arm muscles.

Corneal damage is currently treated by implanting corneas from human donors — which are in short supply — or with an unsightly prosthesis resembling a pinhole camera.

The prosthesis will make its debut in a concert at the Atlanta Science Festival on 22 March.

The nanoparticles were 30 - nanometre - wide beads of surgical cobalt - chromium alloy, a material used in much larger pieces to make surgical implants such as hip prostheses.

There's also the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, or, as Bhavsar and others in ophthalmology like to call it, the bionic eye.

They note that research in this area may eventually have applications in a variety of domains, including in rehabilitation following injury or stroke and the development of brain - computer interfaces and neural prostheses.

Early interpretation of grip planning, including accounting for the distinctive form that plans take in the context of different object, could allow a brain computer interface decoder to get a motion command to a prosthesis more quickly and accurately with information about what is to be gripped, Vargas - Irwin said.

Devices implanted in the brain as neural prosthesis for therapeutic brain stimulation technologies and interfaces for sensory and motor devices, such as artificial limbs, are an important goal for improving quality of life for patients.

Moreover, the researchers found no difference in leg swing times between the two limbs, suggesting that — even though the prostheses are lighter than biological legs — amputee sprinters don't move their legs faster.

And like Schwartz's monkeys, a few paralyzed humans have learned to transmit commands to computers via chips embedded in their brains, but the associated prostheses are still slow and unreliable.

«From the data we've collected so far, there doesn't seem to be any advantage in using a running - specific prosthesis,» Grabowski says.

When patients are fitted with a robotic prosthetic limb, they gain control over their prosthesis with the help of a communication pathway provided by a brain - computer interface, or BCI, implanted in the brain.

For each patient, the procedure was performed in two stages: first, a porous - coated implant was placed in the femur bone, and second, a stoma, or opening, was created to attach the prosthesis.

«Understanding the problem is an important step in finding ways to make these prostheses more reliable.»