A team of researchers at MIT’s McGovern and Picower Institutes has advanced the clinical potential of a thin, flexible fiber designed to simultaneously monitor and manipulate neural activity at targeted sites in the brain.
The fibers could help with testing treatments for nerve-related pain.
New soft-bodied robots that can be controlled by a simple magnetic field are well suited to work in confined spaces.
MIT engineers’ new technology can probe the neural circuits that influence hunger, mood, and a variety of diseases.