The development of an international team of scientists will allow studying the work of individual cells and then creating devices for connecting the brain with a machine. The main difference from analogs is that the probe that reads the activity does not damage cells.
Reading the electrical activity of cells is at the heart of many biomedical procedures such as brain mapping and neuroprosthetics. For the further development of this direction, it is very important to develop new non-invasive instruments for studying electrophysiological reactions.
An international team of researchers from the UK, USA and South Korea presented their approach to solving the problem. Scientists have developed nanoscale probes to record electrical activity inside individual cells, Science Daily reports.
The authors of the development are confident that it will allow us to learn more about the work of neurons and muscles. In addition, similar devices can form the basis of neurointerfaces that provide communication between the brain and technology.
Sergey Kolenov
