The new year is nearly here! This is a good occasion to look back and to define the new aims for the year coming up. We wish you lots of success. Remember — You are a dreamer, and you are an achiever. May you dream and achieve bigger feats, with every passing year. All the…
Scientists from Case Western Reserve University and University of Kansas Medical Center have restored behavior – in this case, the ability to reach through a narrow opening and grasp food – using a neural prosthesis in a rat model of brain injury. Ultimately, the team hopes to develop a device that rapidly and substantially improves…
AOSpine is the largest group of international spine specialists in the world, a community of spine surgeons generating, distributing, and exchanging knowledge to advance science and the spine care profession through research, education, and community development. With this collaborative approach, AOSpine is advancing spine care worldwide. This week, our very own Dr. Michael E Janssen…
A new water-resistant material could provide another tool for medical device designers. Boston University and MIT researchers in the journal Nature describe a material with a novel surface structure that provides very high levels of water resistance, or hydrophobicity. The surface accomplished this feat by minimizing the amount of time that a liquid can maintain…