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Let’s check in on the news about Neuralink, the Elon Musk startup. Hard to miss the coverage that the company recently implanted one of its devices in the brain of a guy with quadriplegia. At first all we had to go on was a single Musk tweet announcing the first human implant – purposely obscure, with no details, no facility or clinician named. There wasn’t even a...

Registration is now open for another Team U2FP race event - the Medtronic Twin Cities in Motion Marathon & 10-mile races! Help U2FP advance curative interventions for the SCI Community by competing in either the marathon or 10-mile races! This year’s events are scheduled for...

I needed a few days of reflection before I wrote this update to all of you. If I had written down how I was feeling too soon after getting back from Madison last week, I’m afraid I would’ve said some things that I might want to take back later...

You might be wondering why we are interviewing the founder of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, Fran Visco. As many of you know, we in the SCI community always hear the money refrain: that what we really need is “more money, more money, more money.” Well, cancer receives a lot more money than spinal cord injury, obviously. But what’s fascinating...