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An Ultrathin Graphene Brain Implant Was Just Tested in a Person
A Spanish biotech company sees the carbon material as a way to power the brain-computer interfaces of the future.
This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch tape-like implant made of graphene on the patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain. The University of Manchester is the site of InBrain’s first-in-human study, which will test the graphene device in up to 10 patients who are already undergoing brain surgery for other reasons. But Christina Tringides, an assistant professor in materials science and nanoengineering at Rice University who isn’t involved with InBrain, says metal electrodes have their disadvantages.
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