Four things to know:
1. Brown University received a $6.3 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an intelligent read-write link for the spinal cord in October.
2. The program plans to link the neurological signals above and below spinal cord injuries and repair two-way communication in the spine.
3. The goal is to create a spinal interface that stimulates across the gap of the spinal cord lesion, as an alternative to invasive brain surgery and limiting surgical spine intervention.
4. Intel will design an AI-trained computer chip to decode signals from the spinal cord, retrain the biological networks and launch the intended behaviors.
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