{"id":34607,"date":"2017-02-16T02:05:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T10:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nanoelectronic-thread-probes-form-reliable-scar-free-integration-with-the-brain"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:59:10","slug":"nanoelectronic-thread-probes-form-reliable-scar-free-integration-with-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/nanoelectronic-thread-probes-form-reliable-scar-free-integration-with-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Nanoelectronic thread probes form reliable, scar-free integration with the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoelectronic-thread-probes-form-reliable-scar-free-integration-with-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another new interface method.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed ultra-flexible, nanoelectronic thread (NET) brain probes that can achieve more reliable long-term neural recording than existing probes and don\u2019t elicit scar formation when implanted.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers described their findings in a research article published in Science Advances (\u201cUltraflexible nanoelectronic probes form reliable, glial scar\u2013free neural integration\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoelectronic-thread-probes-form-reliable-scar-free-integration-with-the-brain.jpg\" alt=\"ultra-flexible probe in neural tissue\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>This is a rendering of the ultra-flexible probe in neural tissue gives viewers a sense of the device\u2019s tiny size and footprint in the brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=45874.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=45874.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another new interface method. Engineering researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have designed ultra-flexible, nanoelectronic thread (NET) brain probes that can achieve more reliable long-term neural recording than existing probes and don\u2019t elicit scar formation when implanted. The researchers described their findings in a research article published in Science Advances (\u201cUltraflexible nanoelectronic probes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55848,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34607\/revisions\/55848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}