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• Improving Balance and Gait Control
  Balance in humans relies on complex feedback from the senses that govern the body’s mechanical stability. Wyss Institute and Boston University researchers have discovered that random vibrations, too gentle to be felt, can improve the sensory feedback system and may restore stability through a mechanism known as “stochastic resonance”. By incorporating vibrating elements in insoles...

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• Research Spotlights Dangerous cell detachment decoded
  August 15, 2017
• Press Release Post-stroke patients reach terra firma with Wyss Institute’s exosuit technology
  July 26, 2017
• Press Release Boston University engineer to use $2.5 million NIH grant to cells’ reaction to physical force
  September 24, 2009

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  Soft Exosuit for Post-stroke Gait Re-training
  This video explains how exosuit technology, developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, applied to ankle movements helps patients post-stroke regain a more normal gait. Credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University