Monthly Archives: January 2022
Wickens marks return to racing with podium finish in Daytona
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Robert Wickens worked for more than three years to get back into a racecar and resume the driving career...
The game-changing instruments disabled musicians can play using just their eyes
Innovations in music technology have allowed people with disabilities to learn and play music without barriers.
According to an Arts Council England study, just 1.8...
Elon Musk’s brain chip firm Neuralink lines up clinical trials in humans
Implants that Musk says could allow paralysed people to walk already tested on a macaque and a pig
The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brain chip...
The Controller Project
The Controller Project recently ran a brilliant snap-on controller mods competition with Prusa Printers. This has gleaned 123 entries with potential to help physically Disabled people.
One...
Novel hydrogel promotes neural regeneration after spinal cord injury
Researchers led by Prof. Dai Jianwu from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences developed a multifunctional scaffold...
NVG-291 spinal cord injury treatment enters Phase II clinical trials
In a groundbreaking development for paralysed people, the revolutionary NVG-291 treatment for spinal cord injury is set to undergo Phase II clinical trials.
It...
UBC researchers lead $24 million project to treat spinal cord injury
A key challenge in treating traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI)—the kind caused by impact from a car crash, a fall, a sporting activity or...
