MIT researchers have developed a way to help people with amputation or paralysis regain limb control (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT researchers have developed a way to help people with amputation or paralysis regain limb control

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MIT researchers have developed a way to help people with amputation or paralysis regain limb control. Instead of using electricity to stimulate muscles, they used light. Here, Guillermo Herrera-Arcos looks at a tiny light shining from materials in the lab.

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Steph Stevens

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