Technology Quarterly | Getting wired up
Crossing the brain’s electrical frontier
New ways of getting inside patients’ heads
The stent is a commonplace miracle. Every year millions of people around the world have their coronary arteries enlarged and reinforced by these life-saving little expandable tubes of mesh. The elect club of those who have had their whole worlds enlarged by “stentrodes”, on the other hand, numbers just three.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “Wired up”
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