{"id":224548,"date":"2025-11-05T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hair-thin-fiber-can-control-thousands-of-brain-neurons-simultaneously"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:30:12","slug":"hair-thin-fiber-can-control-thousands-of-brain-neurons-simultaneously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/hair-thin-fiber-can-control-thousands-of-brain-neurons-simultaneously","title":{"rendered":"Hair-thin fiber can control thousands of brain neurons simultaneously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hair-thin-fiber-can-control-thousands-of-brain-neurons-simultaneously.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research.<\/p>\n<p>A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis in both the McKelvey School of Engineering and WashU Medicine have created a new kind of fiber-optic device to manipulate neural activity deep in the brain. The device, called PRIME (Panoramically Reconfigurable IlluMinativE) fiber, delivers multi-site, reconfigurable optical stimulation through a single, hair-thin implant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy combining fiber-based techniques with optogenetics, we can achieve deep-brain stimulation at unprecedented scale,\u201d said Song Hu, a professor of biomedical engineering at McKelvey Engineering, who collaborated with the laboratory of Adam Kepecs, a professor of neuroscience and of psychiatry at WashU Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiber-optic technology revolutionized the telecommunications industry and may soon do the same for brain research. A group of researchers from Washington University in St. Louis in both the McKelvey School of Engineering and WashU Medicine have created a new kind of fiber-optic device to manipulate neural activity deep in the brain. The device, called PRIME [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224548","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=224548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}