From Rats to Humans: Project NEUWalk Closer to Clinical Trials
From: Medical Design Technology - 09/29/2014

A completely paralyzed rat can be made to walk over obstacles and up stairs
by electrically stimulating the severed part of the spinal cord. The EPFL
scientists discovered how to control in real-time how the rat moves forward
and how high it lifts its limbs. A new lab at the CHUV will extend this
technology to human patients as early as next summer using an innovative Gait
Platform which was built with the support of the Valais canton and the SUVA,
bringing the European Project NEUWalk closer to clinical trials.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:43) at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/news/2014/09/rats-humans-project-neuwalk-closer-clinical-trials

Links:
Gregoire Courtine Lab
http://courtine-lab.epfl.ch/

NEUWalk
http://www.neuwalk.eu/