{"id":70839,"date":"2017-07-14T23:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/rice-team-developing-flat-microscope-for-the-brain"},"modified":"2017-07-14T23:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:47:17","slug":"rice-team-developing-flat-microscope-for-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/rice-team-developing-flat-microscope-for-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Rice team developing flat microscope for the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rice-team-developing-flat-microscope-for-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HOUSTON \u2013 (July 12, 2017) \u2013 Rice University engineers are building a flat microscope, called FlatScope <sub>TM<\/sub>, and developing software that can decode and trigger neurons on the surface of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal as part of a new government initiative is to provide an alternate path for sight and sound to be delivered directly to the brain.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of a $65 million effort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/news-events\/2017-07-10\">announced this week<\/a> by the federal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/\">Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency<\/a> (DARPA) to develop a high-resolution neural interface. Among many long-term goals, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/neural-engineering-system-design\">Neural Engineering System Design<\/a> (NESD) program hopes to compensate for a person\u2019s loss of vision or hearing by delivering digital information directly to parts of the brain that can process it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.rice.edu\/2017\/07\/12\/rice-team-developing-flat-microscope-for-the-brain\/\">http:\/\/news.rice.edu\/2017\/07\/12\/rice-team-developing-flat-mi...the-brain\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON \u2013 (July 12, 2017) \u2013 Rice University engineers are building a flat microscope, called FlatScope TM, and developing software that can decode and trigger neurons on the surface of the brain. Their goal as part of a new government initiative is to provide an alternate path for sight and sound to be delivered directly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1490,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-government","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70839","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}