As well as offering a way to create souped - up organisms, changing neural connectivity could one day allow us to treat brain damage in people by
rerouting signals around damaged neurons.
When nerves connecting the brain and spinal cord are severed,
rerouting signals through local nerve cells can make movement possible again
Not exact matches
At that point, there is often still enough surviving spinal cord tissue to allow for a sort of neural workaround, a
rerouting of
signals to maintain the flow of sensory and motor
signals below the wound.
By 8:36 am, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Metropolitan Transportation Authority was advising customers, on Twitter, that B train service was suspended, D trains were
rerouted onto other lines, N, R and Q trains were running with delays, all thanks to a «loss of power affecting
signals at DeKalb Av.»
Many of the
signals in the city's subway system are decades old, and when they break, they often take hours to fix, forcing the agency to
reroute, delay or cancel dozens of trains.
When an electric
signal hits such a roadblock, it gets
rerouted.
Since the Communist Party
signaled its intention to create a national park system in a 2013 planning document, the government has banned logging in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, canceled a highway project that would have bisected big cat habitat, and
rerouted a high - speed railway connecting China to Vladivostok, a city on Russia's Pacific coast.
They could then use the
rerouted nerve
signals to control a robotic limb, allowing a person to control their prosthesis with the same nerves they originally used to control their real limb.