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Paralyzed primates regain use of their limbs

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  • 10 November 2016
  • Grégoire Courtine
    • Sciences de la vie, EPFL
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Making paralyzed people walk again is an old dream on the way to becoming reality. In June 2015, a monkey regained control of its legs, even though they had been paralyzed following a spinal cord injury.

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