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...testing the first drug designed to tackle the root cause rather than the symptoms of this brain-addling disease. Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's were given a gamma secretase inhibitor, a compound that blocks the formation of the sticky plaques that gum up the brain's neural connections. So far, the drug seems to have been well tolerated...
NERVE TRANSPLANT In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves will act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet...
...testing the first drug designed to tackle the root cause rather than the symptoms of this brain-addling disease. Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's were given a gamma secretase inhibitor, a compound that blocks the formation of the sticky plaques that gum up the brain's neural connections. So far, the drug seems to have been well tolerated...
...Nerve Transplant In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet for the rest...
...human/machine civilization, and the intelligence we are creating is both derivative of and an extension to our human intelligence. We are already placing today's generation of intelligent machines in our bodies and brains, particularly for those with disabilities (e.g., cochlear implants for the deaf) and diseases (e.g., neural implants for Parkinson's patients). By 2030 there will be ubiquitous use of surgery-free neural implants introduced into our brains by billions of "nanobots" (i.e., microscopic yet intelligent robots) traveling through our capillaries. These noninvasive neural implants will routinely expand our mind through direct connection with nonbiological intelligence...