When I was 12 years old, I was one of the first few people in Singapore who underwent cochlear implantation.

From this perspective, cochlear implants seem ethically unproblematic.

Cochlear implant users cannot tell the difference between these instruments.

To them, cochlear implants are an enhancement beyond normal functioning.

Most cochlear implant users cannot tell the difference between an instrument.

Stationing means implantation, emplacement, transportation on land or inland waters, stockpiling, storage, installation and deployment.

Artificial insemination and embryo implantation for an unmarried woman may be performed if she requests it.

We would be thrilled if we had one semitone pitch perception in cochlear implant users.

He's deaf, and he learned to play the piano after he received the cochlear implant.

Plastic surgery, the implantation of biochips, piercings all emblazon the belief that our bodies are our unique property.

Artificial insemination and embryo implantation may be performed with the consent of both spouses in a registered marriage.

And now today we have the modern multi channel cochlear implant, which is an outpatient procedure.

And not long after I got my cochlear implant, I started learning how to play piano.

Brain machine interfaces are already clinically well established for example, in restoring hearing through cochlear implants.

And now you have cochlear implants that go into people's heads and allow the deaf to begin to hear.

If the test is positive, the pregnancy can be terminated, or, in the case of pre implantation diagnosis, the embryo will be discarded.

Ion implantation is a materials engineering process by which ions of a material are accelerated in an electrical field and impacted into a solid.

And for Parkinson's disease, Cochlear implants, these have indeed been able to bring some kind of remedy to people with certain kinds of disorder.

It occurs after the implantation of the embryo into the uterine wall and involves the remodeling of blood vessels in order to supply the needed amount of blood.

So if we had to design a perfect cochlear implant, what we would try to do is target it to be able to allow music transmission.

Truth of the matter is you can play the piano without a cochlear implant, because all you have to do is press the keys at the right time.

In the United States, a report by the National Institutes of Health stated that a conceptus could be both a pre implantation embryo and a pre embryo at the same time.

Health care facilities ensure and bear responsibility for safeguarding the donor's anonymity and keeping the performance of the artificial insemination and embryo implantation secret, in conformance with Republic of Tajikistan law.

Recalling further the resolutions and guidelines adopted by consensus by the General Assembly and the Disarmament Commission relating to confidence building measures and their implantation at the global, regional and subregional levels,

Under article 38 of the law on public health care, every woman who has attained majority age and is of child bearing age has the right to artificial insemination and embryo implantation.

However, despite this incredible facility that some cochlear implant users display with language, you turn on the radio and all of a sudden they can't hear music almost at all.

I've been very lucky to work with Dr. David Ryugo where I've been working on deaf cats that are white and trying to figure out what happens when we give them cochlear implants.

Okay, now if we consider that in a cochlear implant patient pitch perception could be off as much as two octaves, let's see what happens here when we randomize this to within one semitone.

For example, many in the deaf community have rejected cochlear implants, because they do not regard deafness as a disability that needs to be corrected, but as a part of their life and cultural identity.

As a musician, I can tell you that if I had to have a cochlear implant, I'd be heartbroken. I'd just be plainly heartbroken, because I know that music would never sound the same to me.

According to a press release by Carmat dated December 20, 2013, the first implantation of its artificial heart in a 75 year old patient was performed on December 18, 2013 by the Georges Pompidou European Hospital team in Paris (France).

If we were to direct efforts towards training cochlear implant users to hear music because right now there's virtually no effort put towards that, no rehabilitative strategies, very little in the way of technological advances to actually improve music we would come a long way.

Now if you look at the brain of an individual who has a cochlear implant and you have them listen to speech, have them listen to rhythm and have them listen to melody, what you find is that the auditory cortex is the most active during speech.