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Battelle Working On Device To Help Quadriplegics

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A team from Battelle Memorial Institute and Ohio State University is in clinical trials of Neurobridge, a device that allows quadriplegics to move. The device converts users' brain signals into electric pulses that bypass the spinal cord and go straight to their muscles.

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.