Biomedical Research

KEY FINDING: The alginate scaffold with growth factors reduced the size of the central lesion cavity in the injured spinal cord.

KEY FINDING: Peak interaction forces are particularly prominent at the anterior aspect of the right leg.

KEY FINDING: The participant demonstrated the ability to purposefully operate the BCI-FES system by following verbal cues during overground walking tests.

KEY FINDING: NGF-HP hydrogel showed good morphology and stable bioactivity of NGF in vitro, and enhanced the efficiency of NGF cellular uptake without obvious cytotoxicity.

KEY FINDING: Tractography revealed new fibers running across the spinal cord injury in three canines treated with AFG.

KEY FINDING: The tenascin-C mimetic PA (TN-C PA) was found to self-assemble into supramolecular nanofibers and was incorporated through co-assembly into PA gels formed by highly aligned nanofibers.

KEY FINDING: Both the hip-knee coupling and knee damping mechanisms improved coordination between the hip and knee joints during the STS maneuver.

KEY FINDING: Current assistive devices often fall short of meeting the needs of people with disabilities, leading to disappointment and rejection.

KEY FINDING: Both Kalman filter and RNN approaches show clinically feasible results on estimation/prediction of joint torque with eEMG signals only.

KEY FINDING: The results show that, even with significant errors in the marker position estimation, method accuracy is adequate for RAR.