This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in brain-computer interfaces. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the ...

A man who is unable to move or speak can now generate words and sentences on a computer using only his thoughts. The ability comes from an experimental implanted device that decodes signals in the man ...

In Shakespeare’s play, Prince Hamlet’s uncle Claudius murdered Hamlet’s napping father by pouring poison, “juice of cursed hebona,” in his brother’s ear, taking the throne and marrying the widow. At ...

Machines that can connect to our brains and interpret its electrical signals hold all kinds of potential in all kinds of areas. A perfect demonstration of this is a research partnership between ...

A new technology that is able to translate our brain signals into speech has been developed by a team of neuroscientists, neurosurgeons and engineers at Duke University in North Carolina. The ...

I treat the last days of a year as a general suggestion rather than as a hard and fast cutoff date. I rationalize this by arguing that Jan. 1, when you think about it, is a rather arbitrary point on ...