Researchers at the École Polytechnique Fédérale, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to design a soft, flexible electronic implant, which they say has the same ability to bend and stretch as dura mater, the ...

Researchers have created an ultra-flexible brain implant that may help restore injured spinal cords and nervous systems without inflammation or infection. "E-dura," named after the dura mater ...

Here’s how we might fix spinal injuries in the future: with an implant that reconnects our body with the rest of our nervous system. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, in ...

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) scientists have managed to get rats walking on their own again using a combination of electrical and chemical stimulation. But applying this method to ...

What is the anatomy of the spinal cord? The human spinal cord is a cylindrical structure of nerve tissue that is protected by the spinal column and composed of uniformly organized white and grey ...

Durotomy is a common neurosurgical complication involving a tear in the dura mater, the protective membrane surrounding the ...

Paralysed rats have regained the ability to walk after using a new implant and undergoing several weeks of training Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute ...