A thin strip of flexible film, printed with layers of graphene and molybdenum disulfide ink, fired electrical spikes into a ...

After state regulators rejected East Windsor’s argument that it’s carrying way too much of the burden of Connecticut’s solar energy industry, the town is preparing to appeal the approval of a highly ...

Neural organoids have been heralded as having huge potential for advancing our knowledge of the brain in several fields. These include exploring the responses of brain tissue to drugs, investigating ...

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life. Developing tau ...

1 University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, BioMEMS Lab, Germany 2 Technische Universität Darmstadt, Eduard-Zintl Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Germany Motivation In this ...

Science Corporation, which offers a brain-computer interface retinal implant aimed at restoring form vision to patients blinded by macular degeneration, has scored $230 million in Series C funding, ...

Recent technological advances have opened new exciting possibilities for the development of smart prosthetics, such as artificial limbs, joints or organs that can replace injured, damaged or amputated ...

Understanding the dynamic neural mechanisms of sleep-wake cycles is a major challenge in sleep science and neuroengineering. Sleep, essential for maintaining brain homeostasis and cognitive function, ...

Motivation The main goal of this work was to explore electrical stimulation parameters that reproducibly and precisely elicit action potentials in single neurons (Wagenaar et al. 2004). We compared ...

Researchers used 3D printing and capillary action to create customizable neural chips, expanding design freedom for brain research, biosensors and biocomputing. (Nanowerk News) Cultured neural tissues ...