The scientists at Neuralink have an ambitious vision: creating high-bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to seamlessly connect humans with computers. This groundbreaking technology has the potential to assist people suffering from brain trauma due to genetics, heart disease, or cancer. To bring their vision to life for the company’s launch event, they turned to XVIVO.
When Migraine Attacks
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Michael Astrachan
Anyone who suffers from migraine can tell you it is more than just a bad headache. Migraine attacks often include pain with nausea or vomiting and can be accompanied by hypersensitivity to light, sound or touch and last for up to 3 days. When a migraine occurs, the person becomes disabled and can’t perform their normal daily …
Precision in Animating Surgery
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Michael Astrachan
Dr. Parth Shah, the Director of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the Thoracic Outlet Center at Hartford Healthcare’s Heart and Vascular institute asked XVIVO to create an animation of a surgery he performs to relieve a condition called thoracic outlet syndrome, or TOS. The details of the surgery were difficult to convey in regular conversation and diagramming …
Your Mouth, in Sickness and Health
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Michael Astrachan
XVIVO Scientific Animation recently wrapped up an exciting project on the bacteria that are found in the human mouth and how these bacteria are affected by oral hygiene (or the lack thereof). We teamed up again with colleagues at Johnson & Johnson for a new virtual reality (VR) visualization of the normal bacterial community that …