It is essential to advance our knowledge of neural circuits, develop new medical device-based therapies, and create high-resolution electrophysiological information for brain–computer interfaces by recording the activity of large populations of single neurons in the brain over extended periods of time.
A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with The University of Texas at Austin, MIT, and Axoft, Inc., has recently created a soft implantable device with dozens of sensors capable of stably recording single-neuron activity in the brain for months. This groundbreaking research has been published in Nature Nanotechnology.
Paul Le Floch, the first author of the paper and former graduate student in the lab of Jia Liu, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at SEAS, stated, “We have developed brain–electronics interfaces with single-cell resolution that are more biologically compliant than traditional materials. This work has the potential to revolutionize the design of bioelectronics for neural recording and stimulation, and for brain–computer interfaces.”
Le Floch, now the CEO of Axoft, Inc., co-founded the company with Liu and Tianyang Ye, a former graduate student and postdoctoral fellow in the Park Group at Harvard. Harvard’s Office of Technology Development has protected the intellectual property associated with this research and licensed the technology to Axoft for further development.
2024-01-27 07:00:04
Original from phys.org