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Advances in neuroscience and engineering have generated great hope for Luke Skywalker-like prosthetics: robotic devices that are almost indistinguishable from a human limb. Key to solving this challenge is designing devices that not only can be operated with a user s own neural activity, but can also accurately and precisely receive and relay sensory information to the user.
A new study by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago and Chalmers University of Technology, published on December 22 in the journal
Cell Reports, highlights just how difficult this may prove to be. In a cohort of three subjects whose amputated limbs had been replaced with neuromusculoskeletal prosthetic limbs, the investigators found that even after a full year of using the devices, the participant s subjective sensation never shifted to match the location of the touch sensors on their prosthetic devices.
COVID-19 vaccinations begin at University of Chicago Medicine
Dec 18, 2020 First employees inoculated, with thousands more to be scheduled over next several weeks
The University of Chicago Medicine began inoculating frontline staff against the virus that causes COVID-19 on Dec. 17, following delivery of 1,950 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from the Chicago Department of Public Health.
A diverse group of frontline employees including a resident physician, a pulmonologist, a nuclear medicine technician, an operating room technician, a nurse manager and a radiation oncology patient service representative were in the first group to get vaccinated.
“COVID-19 has been such a wrecking ball,” said Howard J. Halpern, a radiation oncologist. “To find the possibility at this point, the dear hope this is going to pass us by finally, is a monumental experience. This is historically important. This vaccine is the first step a step I want us
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From the perspective of A. Murat Eren, PhD, the mouth is the perfect place to study microbial communities. Not only is it the beginning of the GI tract, but it s also a very special and small environment that s microbially diverse enough that we can really start to answer interesting questions about microbiomes and their evolution, said Eren, an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. There s a surprising amount of site specificity, in that you find defined patterns of microbes in different areas of the mouth the microbes associated with the tongue are very different from those on the plaque on your teeth, he continued. Your tongue microbes are more similar to those living on someone else s tongue than they are to those living in your throat or on your gums!