Electric Device That Tells You When to Urinate
From: IEEE Spectrum - 11/07/2013
By: Emily Waltz

People who suffer severe spinal cord injuries and subsequent paralysis often
lose bladder control too. But a new electronic device may restore that bodily
function. British neuroscientist James Fawcett and his colleagues have
developed a neuroprosthetic device that replaces damaged nerves that convey
the bladder's sense of fullness. The device also blocks or triggers bladder
emptying on cue through electrical stimulation. Fawcett and his team
successfully demonstrated the technology in rats and published their results
yesterday in Science Translational Medicine.

Read the entire article at:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/biomedical/devices/electric-device-that-tells-you-when-to-pee/

Links:
James Fawcett
http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?jf108

A Microchannel Neuroprosthesis for Bladder Control After Spinal Cord Injury
  in Rat 
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/5/210/210ra155

Related:
Spinal Stimulation Gets Paralyzed Patients Moving (with video 2:08)
http://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/devices/spinal-stimulation-gets-paralyzed-patients-moving