LONG DISTANCE COLLABORATION. “Dr. Nicolelis added a touch of international drama by locating one rat at Duke, in North Carolina, and another in Natal, Brazil. Similarly, in his earlier work, he had a monkey in North Carolina operate a robotic arm in Japan.”
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