Wireless Devices Used to Stimulate Spinal Cord and Peripheral Nerves (AUDIO)

WashU Medicine

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Taking another step forward in wireless, optogenetic technology, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and engineers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed new, soft, stretchable and fully implantable devices that can be used not only in the brain but throughout the nervous system to potentially block pain signals using light. Jim Dryden has the story...

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