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This MIT spinout wants to spool hair-thin fibers into patients’ brains
You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spinout thinks it could one day
Specifically, NeuroBionics aims to pipe what it has developed — bioelectric fibers the width of a human hair — through blood vessels in the brain using a procedure similar to a stent placement to deliver neuromodulation therapy. The fibers are powered by a fairly standard implantable battery that’s shaped like an Airpod case, designed to last five to 10 years, and is used by other medical device makers for spinal cord stimulation, among other things. Like Jurvetson, Antonini insists that eventually, NeuroBionics’ bio-electronic fibers could be used in a whole spectrum of applications, including to deliver drugs, ablate tissue in the brain, and treat conditions relating to the spinal cord and the peripheral nervous system.
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