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Monitoring Brain Activity With Mesh Electronics

Posted by Soulskill on from the brain-and-brain,-what-is-brain dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Medical researchers have long known that bioelectronics could substantially improve patient diagnosis and treatment, but the difficulty in putting that circuitry into place kept more traditional options at the forefront. Now, a team of scientists has found a clever way to deliver flexible electronic meshes via syringe, which could make it easier to monitor complex brain activity without dangerous surgery. "The scientists demonstrated they could inject a 2mm wide sample of the mesh through a glass needle with an inner diameter of only 95m. During injection, the mesh structure continuously unfolds as it exits the needle. Injection of the mesh through a needle with a 600m inner diameter produced similar results." The team has already tested the technique on rodents, and found minimal response from astrocytes, cells involved in repairing damaged brain tissue. They were able to record the rodents's brain activity as well.

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  1. I have a bad feeling about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    95 meters is kinda big for a needle

    1. Re:I have a bad feeling about this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's a Slashdot girlie thing- leaving off the Micro- prefix. Orders of Magnitude are _hard_.
      Thus micrometer is reduced to m.
      A microprocessor is just a processor.
      A microscope is just a scope.
      Microcode is just code.
      One is supposed to gather context by mind-reading; the classic Slashdot girlie trait.
      Expect an upcoming Roblimo video where some neckbeard merely stares into the camera with hypnotoad eyes for 20 minutes. A full transcript will be provided.

    2. Re:I have a bad feeling about this by Ihlosi · · Score: 2

      Things get really confusing when you omit the prefix on microphone ... or Microsoft.

    3. Re:I have a bad feeling about this by ray-auch · · Score: 2

      More worrying is what the hell kind of rodent they have created where you need a 95m needle to inject into the brain...

  2. Who did this? by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 2

    The scientists demonstrated they could inject a 2mm wide sample of the mesh through a glass needle with an inner diameter of only 95m

    The system, Tiny, Angstrom-level Regional Dermal Injection System, or TARDIS, benefis both medicine and research.

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    1. Re:Who did this? by feathersmg · · Score: 2

      In this case, people often use "um". This is far less confusing than "m" which is the official abbreviation for "meter".

  3. Look at the bright side: by Ihlosi · · Score: 2
    No chance of headache. In fact, you won't feel anything at all .. permanently.

    In unrelated news: 'm' is not an abbreviation of 'micron'.

  4. Re:A new low? by VorpalRodent · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Yo momma so fat, her insulin come from prototype mesh electronics delivery mechanisms" just doesn't have that same punch.

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