Bypassing Paralysis Altogether - #84
From: Discover Magazine - Top 100 Stories of 2016 - 12/12/2016
By: Jonathon Keats

A device restores movement directly to a man's arm.

Ian Burkhart was 19 when he broke his neck, leaving him a quadriplegic,
paralyzed and unable to move his upper body from the elbows down. Now, six
years later, he can control his fingers enough to play the video game Guitar
Hero. And it’s all thanks to a so-called neural bypass.

Read the entire article at:
http://discovermagazine.com/2017/janfeb/84-bypassing--paralysis--altogether

Links:
Restoring cortical control of functional movement in a human with quadriplegia
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7602/full/nature17435.html

Minimally invasive endovascular stent-electrode array for high-fidelity,
  chronic recordings of cortical neural activity
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v34/n3/full/nbt.3428.html