Merger Of Nanowires And Neurons Could Boost Efforts To Measure And Understand Brain Activity

... Opening a whole new interface between nanotechnology and neuroscience, scientists at Harvard University have used slender silicon nanowires to detect, stimulate, and inhibit nerve signals along the axons and dendrites of live mammalian neurons.Harvard chemist Charles M. Lieber and colleagues report on this marriage of nanowires and neurons this week in the journal Science. [click link for full article] ...