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Thursday, July 17 2014: For the first time ever, a paralysed man has moved his fingers and hand with his own thoughts after an electronic neural bypass for spinal cord injuries that reconnects the brain directly to muscles, allowing voluntary and functional control of a paralysed limb. This innovation comes from a partnership between The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Battelle. Ian Burkhart, a 23-year-old quadriplegic from Dublin, USA, is the first patient to use Neurobridge, an electronic neural bypass. Burkhart is the first of a potential five participants in a clinical study. “It is much like a heart bypass, but instead of bypassing blood, we are bypassing electrical signals,” said Chad Bouton, research leader at Battelle. “We are taking those signals from the brain, going around the injury and going directly to the muscles.” The Neurobridge technology combines...