Biocompatible microparticles remotely stimulate neural impulses in mice as safer alternative to brain electrodes

Researchers from Skoltech—a VEB.RF radical institution—and their colleagues astatine the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of SB RAS and different aesculapian subject centers successful Russia person managed to modulate the breathing and bosom complaint of a rodent by wirelessly stimulating its vagus nerve. The electrical stimulation was delivered by nontoxic magnetic microparticles, which acted arsenic tiny electrodes successful the nervus tissue.