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EMBARGO UNTIL MAY 24, 17:00 CET - Dutch paraplegic patient Gert-Jan, center, who can walks thanks the Brain Computer Interface (BCI) enables thought-controlled walking after spinal cord injury, poses surrounded by Prof. Gregoire Courtine, Professor of neuroscience at EPFL, CHUV and UNIL, Guillaume Charvet, head of the Brain-Computer Interface program at CEA, Prof. Jocelyne Bloch, neurosurgeon and Professor at CHUV, UNIL and EPFL, Dr Henri Lorach, head of the Brain-Computer Interface program at EPFL, CHUV and UNIL, from left to right, during a press conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Neuroscientists from EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, CHUV/UNIL, Lausanne University Hospital and CEA, University Grenoble Alpes Hospital CHUGA, University Grenoble Alpes UGA, will publish in the prestigious scientific journals Nature, that they have re-established the communication between the brain and spinal cord with a wireless digital bridge, allowing a paralyzed person to walk again naturally. (KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott)