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A Paralyzed Man Few a Drone with His Mine: Said BME and University of Michigan Robotics Department professor, Cindy Chestek, Ph.D.: “”We finally have the ability to interact with the brain at the level of neurons,” Chestek said, “and we think that’s going to apply to a lot of things we haven’t even thought about yet.”

MLive profiled University of Michigan scientists who are developing implantable devices designed to make it simpler to diagnose diseases such as cancer or multiple sclerosis.

BME’s Jim Weiland was recently quoted on the results of a Neuralink trial to restore vision. “It’s a step forward for retinal prostheses, for sure. But there are some details we don’t know that could tell us how big of a step it is,” Weiland says. “And one of those details is whether the patients were using a magnified image when they recognized these letters.”

BME’s Ariella Shikanov’s recent paper with co-PI Jun Li detailing the mapping of the human ovary at the resolution of a single cell was recently featured.

BME’s Cindy Chestek discussed the pros and cons of neural implants with regard to the recent announcement of Elon Musk’s Neuralink trials using the first human implant.