image: Picture showing the clinical ABI (left) not conforming very well to the surface of the auditory brainstem compared to the soft ABI (right) that creates a much more intimate contact with the auditory brainstem. 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: ©EPFL / Nicolas Vachicouras]