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Causes: Health, Neurology & Neuroscience
Mission: The primary mission is to facilitate breakthrough research and development, education and social programs that support new science and technology of the brain that translate into revolutionary practices.
Programs: Nestec research project aims to establish a deep understanding of the relationship between taste sensitivity, metabolic state and genotype in humans. The study allows a statistical mapping of how taste sensitivity evolves throughout life as a function of human genotypes, gender, ethnicity and nutrition habits.
washington seed school grant provides cash to develop and implement programs in neuroscience, robotics, science and engineering to students primarily in grades 6-12 foster long-term improvements in student achievement overall and science specifically.
the walk again project(wap) is the first worldwide, non-profit brain research consortium aimed at building a new generation of limb prostheses whcih can be directly controlled by the subject's own brain activity, and will be capable in the future, of restoring full-body mobility in tens of millions of severely paralyzed patients, due to spinal cord injuries, worldwide. An international team of neurophysiologists, computer scientists, engineers, roboticists, neurologists and neurosurgeons has been assembled for the project and to collaborate with the goal of achieving the milestone of making a quadriplegic patient walk again by the end of 2014.
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