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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY ESTELLE EMONET This photo taken on October 29, 2012 in Grenoble, French Alps, shows the facade of the Clinatec's/Edmond J. Safra research center new building. Clinatec, backed by the Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission and Grenoble' public hospital was granted this summer the authorization by the National Security Agency of Medicines and Health Products to conduct its first experiments on human beings following a five-year research. The program consists of surgically implanting electrodes into the primary motor cortex of a quadriplegic's brain, the part of the brain that governs movement, thus activating a robotized arm or a leg. AFP PHOTO / JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT (Photo by JEAN PIERRE CLATOT / AFP) (Photo by JEAN PIERRE CLATOT/AFP via Getty Images)