Forbes March 4, 2024
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in neuroprosthetic technology.
In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of interventions that restore normal function to tissues and organs damaged by disease, injured by trauma, or worn by time. I include a full spectrum of chemical, gene, and protein-based medicines, cell-based therapies, and biomechanical interventions that achieve that goal.
A new device has been developed that allows you to speak by thought alone, without the vocal cords. This is useful for people with neurological damage who can no longer speak but still think. The system isolates neural signals associated with speech synthesis, translating those signals into words. Here, I...
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