Wireless, Optical Cochlear Implant Uses LED Lights to Restore Hearing in Rodents (3 of 7) (VIDEO)

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The optical cochlear implant stimulating a rat cochlea with music. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jul. 22, 2020, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by D. Keppeler at University Medical Center Göttingen in Göttingen, Germany; and colleagues was titled, "Multichannel optogenetic stimulation of the auditory pathway using microfabricated LED cochlear implants in rodents."

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[Credit: D. Keppeler <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2020)]

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