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A Stroke Survivor Speaks Again With the Help of an Experimental Brain-Computer Implant

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental...
This photo provided by researchers at UCSF and UC Berkeley shows Ann, a participant in a study on speech neuroprostheses, in California in 2023. (Noah Berger/UCSF, UC Berkeley via AP)

A Stroke Survivor Speaks Again With the Help of an Experimental Brain-Computer Implant

Scientists have developed a device that can translate thoughts about speech into spoken words in real time. Although it’s still experimental...

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A COVID-19 vaccination is administered in Silver Spring, Md., Feb. 26, 2021. The Trump administration has canceled funding for dozens of studies seeking new vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 and other pathogens that may cause future pandemics. (Kenny Holston/The New York Times)

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A sign marks the entrance to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, on Oct. 8, 2013. (AP File)

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A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP File)

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Fresno County health officials confirmed on Tuesday the county’s first pediatric deaths associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial ...

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