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Soft Implants for Deafness Better Interface with the Brainstem (2 of 8)

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Soft Implants for Deafness Better Interface with the Brainstem (2 of 8)

image: CT scans comparing the researchers' soft implant to a clinical-grade implant in human cadavers. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 16, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Vachicouras at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Geneva, Switzerland; and colleagues was titled, "Microstructured thin-film electrode technology enables proof of concept of scalable, soft auditory brainstem implants." view more 

Credit: [Credit: N. Vachicouras <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)]


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