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EMBARGO UNTIL OCTOBER 31, 19:00 CET - Swiss paraplegic patient Sebastian Tobler, left, walks thanks to the electrical stimulation of his spinal cord in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, October 30, 2018. Swiss scientists Gregoire Courtine - EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) and CHUV/Unil (Lausanne University Hospital) - and Jocelyne Bloch (CHUV/Unil) will publish a ground breaking double study.in the prestigious scientific journals Nature and Nature Neuroscience on November 1st, showing with their team that three patients with chronic paraplegia were able to walk over ground thanks to precise electrical stimulation of their spinal cords via a wireless implant. (KEYSTONE/Valentin Flauraud)