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Changing the paradigm of heart transplants

Biotech & Health

At a certain point we looked at each other and said: "Do we realise that we are trying to make Iron Man?" He is a superhero who uses a special technology to help him stay alive because his heart has suffered some damage.

Calogero Oddo

Culture & Society

"This is the era of touch"

Afonso Ferreira

Culture & Society

Repairing the brain

Biotech & Health

How do these FET experts see the future?

Culture & Society

Seeing the future: a new breed of bionic eyes

Biotech & Health

Shake the hand that thinks for itself

Biotech & Health

A bionic hand which sees an object and reaches for it automatically without thought, is being trialled in British amputees. The prosthetic is fitted with a camera which takes a picture of the object in front of it, assesses its shape and size then triggers an appropriate grasping movement

Research projects about Bionic body

NeuHeart

Prolonging the life expectancy of patients who receive heart transplants by restoring the neural connections lost during the operation.

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