One of the health conditions modern medicine has yet to fix is paralysis in patients who have experienced accidents affecting their spinal cords. Researchers from Switzerland have come up with a tiny, flexible, gold-plated device that can be implanted in patients to restore spinal cord functionality and allow paralyzed patients to walk again. Researchers have already succeeded in implanting the device in rodents last year, and it helped restore electrical nervous impulses transmission in rats whose spinal cords had been severed for weeks after implant. The e-Dura can stretch and bend, following the natural, limited moves of the spinal cord, without causing inflammation resulting from friction between the device and human tissue. At the same time, thanks to its silicon and gold structure, the implant can deliver the electric impulses the brain sends to the spine in order to trigger movements.