by University of Chicago Credit: University of ChicagoSometimes our bodies need a boost. Millions of Americans rely on pacemakers—small devices that regulate the electrical impulses of the heart in order to keep it beating smoothly. But to reduce complications, researchers would like to make these devices even smaller and less intrusive. A team of researchers with...
Researchers at the University of California San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a tiny neural probe implanted for longer periods to record and stimulate neural activity while minimizing injury to the surrounding tissue. The new neural probe, detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications, is extremely thin—about one-fifth the width of a human hair—and...
