BREAKING NEWS – Lausanne, Switzerland – A new implant lets paralyzed rats walk again. An experimental flexible implant that connects directly to the spinal cord might someday lead to a treatment for people with spinal cord injuries, and could possibly help people with paraplegia move again, researchers say. Now, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have built such an implant. The researchers implanted the device into rats — it rests on the spinal cord, and delivers electric signals, as well as drugs, to the surrounding nerves, triggering them to fire impulses. The researchers said it is also cost effective, because the device used in rats is almost five times cheaper than the miniature motorized wheel chairs that were built, that the small rodents demanded it and received shortly after forming a union.