MIT $100M project to create advanced bionics to treat paralysis & more

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Cambridge, Mass.-based MIT's Center for Extreme Bionics is launching a five-year project to create advanced bionics, according to Futurism.

Here are three insights:

 

1. The project is valued at $100 million.

 

2. Researchers will attempt to treat paralysis, depression, amputation, epilepsy and more.

 

3. The researchers will leverage a digital nervous system powered by optogenetics to try to treat paralysis and Parkinson' disease. The end goal involves creating cells and tissues to grow organs that will repair biological parts.

 

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