/ Neuroengineering Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en /news/restoring-voices-and-identity-neuroengineering <p><span>Lee Miller vividly recalls the day in 2021 when he met a woman who had lost the function of her vocal cords. In hoarse, whispering tones she explained how her voice had been instrumental to her vocation. Losing it, she said, undercut her life’s purpose. Her words were faint, but the lesson was powerful.</span></p> February 27, 2025 - 1:00pm Andy Fell /news/restoring-voices-and-identity-neuroengineering /blog/making-prosthetics-and-virtual-reality-devices-more-inclusive-and-accessible <p><span><span><span>Prosthetic limbs and hands, as well as gloves and tools for virtual and augmented reality, can be controlled with electrical signals from muscles in the wrist and forearm picked up by electrodes on the skin, or electromyography (EMG). But not every wrist is alike. Some people have more fat under the skin, others are lean and some are hairy. Older people have thinner, less elastic skin, and their muscle signals can also differ from young people in important ways.</span></span></span></p> December 28, 2023 - 11:40am Andy Fell /blog/making-prosthetics-and-virtual-reality-devices-more-inclusive-and-accessible /news/uc-davis-engineers-lead-36m-effort-improve-recovery-spinal-cord-injuries <p>Engineers at the University of California, Davis, will lead a consortium of universities, biomedical startups and nonprofit organizations to develop interventions for spinal cord injuries that can be applied within days of injury to improve long-term outcomes.</p> September 30, 2020 - 9:00am Andy Fell /news/uc-davis-engineers-lead-36m-effort-improve-recovery-spinal-cord-injuries