Paralyzed Monkey Walks with chip implant

[Sunshine]

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[agate]

This is a start! It does sound as if it will take a while to perfect this idea but I hope they'll find ways to do that. Of all of the functions that MS can take away, walking may be the worst, the most disastrously life-changing.

[Virginia]

Not be able to walk is so life altering. Even taking a walk in the neighborhood becomes life altering, because then one cannot get to know their neighbors as well.

[SalpalSally]

Sounds. To good to be true!

[stillstANNding]

Poor monkey. Thanks for your help.

ANN

[funnylegs4]

Cool concept. I'm just praying they did not purposefully injure the monkey's spine in order to do the experiment as the injury seems to be only affecting a single limb which I find suspicious.

[stillstANNding]

"The monkey's spinal cord had been partially cut."

ANN

[agate]

We don't know how that cutting happened, do we? Was it an accidental injury? If it was, why isn't that stated?

[Sunshine]

I am sure they purposely crippled the monkey. What has been done to primates in the name of science would disgust you.

[agate]

It's great that so much research is being done on the nervous system but apparently researchers aren't told what medical doctors are told--"Above all, do no harm." This sounds like serious harm to a monkey to me.

[Frog42]

That's because they find animal lives to be unimportant.

[SalpalSally]

That is so sad yikes!

[stillstANNding]

It's nothing new. We just have to remember where our help has come from and be grateful for the monkeys and the mice that were scarificed for us.

ANN

[funnylegs4]

I have heard it said that if you do harm to an animal it is likely you will soon be violent to a human. The disrespect for animals is another symptom of our society's general disregard for the value of life.

[Virginia]

Funnlegs, maybe true, but somehow the mice do not bother like the monkeys do.