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Scientists in several states, including Utah, are working on an implant to prevent jet lag
Scientists in several states are working on an implant that would prevent the effects of jet lag and some Utahns are helping out with the project
and last updated 2021-05-23 13:25:07-04
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah â Researchers at the University of Utah are part of a national team working on an implant to control the body s circadian rhythm.
Scientists hope the wireless device, nicknamed the Living Pharmacy , will half the time it takes to recover from jet lag. Itâll be a small device that is implanted that can release peptides to change [someone s circadian rhythm] while at the same time being able to monitor the state of the patient, said Professor Florian Solzbacher, the Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Utah.
robotic arm
. In the experiment, supplementing vision with artificial tactile perception cut the time spent grasping and transferring objects in half, from a median time of 20.9 to 10.2 seconds. In a sense, this is what we hoped would happen but perhaps not to the degree that we observed, said co-senior author Jennifer Collinger, Ph.D., associate professor in the Pitt Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Sensory feedback from limbs and hands is hugely important for doing normal things in our daily lives, and when that feedback is lacking, people s performance is impaired.
Study participant Nathan Copeland, whose progress was described in the paper, is the first person in the world who was implanted with tiny electrode arrays not just in his brain s