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A new study involving UT Dallas researchers shows that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) technology could helpimprove the lives of hundreds of thousands of people who suffer weakness and paralysis caused by strokes.

The study, published in the journal Stroke, marks the fir

It’s a time of year when people look forward to great things to come in the year ahead. So we asked three local researchers about the future of medicine. Here’s what they said about some big scientific breakthroughs happening in North Texas.

Therapy for brain injuries

New techniques and devices developed in North Texas are pushing us closer to a future where doctors can reprogram damaged nerves and wiretap our brains.

Dallas is becoming the epicenter for a new wave of biomedical devices. Drug-loading fibers, biologically-adaptive tr

Stimulating nerve therapy can help heal physical damage from a stroke. 

(Inside Science TV) - About every 40 seconds, someone somewhere has a stroke. Every four minutes, someone dies from a stroke. They can strike anytime and affect anyone.

Now scientists at the Univers

Millions of Americans suffer from a chronic ringing in the ears known as tinnitus. And for more than 10 million of them, the experience of hearing that sound is severe enough to seek medical attention.

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas are hopeful a new

A technology breakthrough and an emerging company with close connections to UT Dallas have each been honored with one of the Metroplex Technology Business Council’s annual Tech Titan awards.

Researcher Yves Chabal received the Tech Titan Tech Innovator award for work