{"id":224474,"date":"2025-11-04T01:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/neural-implant-smaller-than-a-grain-of-salt-can-wirelessly-track-brain"},"modified":"2025-11-04T01:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:21:13","slug":"neural-implant-smaller-than-a-grain-of-salt-can-wirelessly-track-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/neural-implant-smaller-than-a-grain-of-salt-can-wirelessly-track-brain","title":{"rendered":"Neural implant smaller than a grain of salt can wirelessly track brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neural-implant-smaller-than-a-grain-of-salt-can-wirelessly-track-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cornell University researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-025-01484-1\" target=\"_blank\">detailed<\/a> Nov. 3 in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, demonstrates that microelectronic systems can function at an unprecedentedly small scale, opening new possibilities for neural monitoring, bio-integrated sensing and other applications.<\/p>\n<p>Development of the device, called a microscale optoelectronic tetherless electrode, or MOTE, was co-led by Alyosha Molnar, professor in the school of electrical and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/computer+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer engineering<\/a>, and Sunwoo Lee, an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University who first began working on the technology as a postdoctoral associate in Molnar\u2019s lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornell University researchers and collaborators have developed a neural implant so small that it can rest on a grain of salt, yet it can wirelessly transmit brain activity data in a living animal for more than a year. The breakthrough, detailed Nov. 3 in Nature Electronics, demonstrates that microelectronic systems can function at an unprecedentedly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}