Thursday, May 26, 2005

Headlines@Hopkins - Blending Biology and Robotics

Headlines@Hopkins - Blending Biology and Robotics:
"In a collaboration that blends biology and robotics, researchers at Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland are unraveling the circuitry in an eel's spinal cord to help develop a microchip implant that may someday help paralyzed people walk again."

Via Institute for Global Futures Newsletter
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