Chinese Scientists Build Wireless Brain Monitor Weighing One Gram
In short
- The wireless "Airscope" weighs one gram, the lightest device of its kind, according to its developers.
- It can track the activity of thousands of neurons at the same time.
- Tsinghua University and the Chinese PLA Medical School jointly developed it and described it in a paper.
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The device lets lab animals move freely while researchers record activity across a wide area of the brain. Measuring many neurons at once can reveal patterns that smaller tools miss. The source describes this as a research tool tested in laboratory animals, so its path to human use is not yet shown.
From South China Morning Post
Chinese scientists have developed what they say is the world’s smallest wearable mini brain monitor that can track the activity of thousands of neurons at the same time. Weighing in at one gram (0.35 oz), the wireless “Airscope” is the lightest device of its kind and enables researchers to track a wider range of brain activity in untethered laboratory animals. The device was jointly developed by scientists from Tsinghua University and the Chinese PLA Medical School, and detailed in a paper...
