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Part of the challenge of designing a man-machine interface at the cellular level is coming up with an electrode that doesn’t damage living tissue. Neuroscientists at the University of Michigan have had some success by pouring liquid conductive polymer directly onto slices of mouse brain tissue, and getting it to set in place by [...]

Scientists are getting closer to the man-machine interface: digital processing of rat brain neurons, with live cyborg rats planned for later this year.

Berger’s research team—an all-star roster of neuroscientists, mathematicians, computer engineers and bioengineers from around the country—has so far managed to reproduce only a minute amount of brain activity. Their chip models fewer than [...]

A 26 year old woman who lost her left arm after a motorcycle accident has been fitted with a touch sensitive bionic arm.
The new technique — called targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) — involves re-routing nerves that once controlled the patient’s arm to a patch on the chest, where they grow into muscles. Electrodes on the [...]