(2015-06-15) Scientists Just Invented The Neural Lace

Scientists Just Invented the Neural Lace. Called “mesh electronics,” the device is so thin and supple that it can be injected with a needle.

The mouse brain cells grew around it, forming connections with the wires,

(A 3D microscope image of the mesh merging with brain cells.)

Source: A Flexible Circuit Has Been Injected Into Living Brains

Autopsies of injected mice revealed that the wires had woven themselves into the tangled fabric of neurons over the course of weeks. Tight connections formed as plastic and brain matter knitted together with seemingly little negative impact. This compatibility is perhaps because the net was modeled after three-dimensional scaffolds used by biomedical engineers to grow tissues outside of the body.