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JD HANCOCK <\/a>\/ CC BY 2.0 DEED<\/a><\/p>\n A team from the John Hopkins University in Baltimore USA have developed a tiny flexible and stretchable, spinal-cord stimulator that can be injected below the injury, without major surgery.<\/p>\n The lead researcher and study co-author, Assistant Professor Dingchang Lin, elaborated on the innovative concept in an interview with The News-Letter;<\/p>\n \u201cThis started from [the discovery] that we can implant into a new position that people [had] not recognized previously. We call this the ventrolateral site,\u201d <\/em>Lin said. \u201cThe team found that stimulation at this ventrolateral epidural surface measured much higher precision in terms of stimulation and a much lower current. This means you can use lower power to [achieve] the same [result].\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Read more\u2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n The research was published in Nano Letters (doi.org\/10.1021\/acs.nanolett.3c01806)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\nResearchers develop a tiny flexible spinal-cord stimulator that can be implanted without major surgery.\n<\/div>\n