Dyani Lewis Gert-Jan Oskam walks with the assistance of a crutch. A spinal-cord injury paralysed him below the neck 12 years ago, but a new device has given him mobility.Credit: CHUV/Gilles Weber Twelve years ago, a cycling accident left Gert-Jan Oskam, now 40, with paralysed legs and partially paralysed arms, after his spinal cord was...
“People have really doubted whether this was even feasible,” Mariska Vansteensel, a researcher at the University Medical Center Utrecht who was not involved in the study, told Science.org. The unidentified German man, 36, was diagnosed with ALS, a rare progressive nervous system disease that leads to the loss of muscle control, in 2015. When an ALS patient...
