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Tiny tubes wrap around brain cells

Adam Zewe

created: Feb. 25, 2025, 10 p.m. | updated: March 19, 2025, 5:36 p.m.

Wearable devices like smart watches and fitness trackers help us measure and learn from physical functions such as heart rates and sleep stages. Now MIT researchers have developed a tiny equivalent for individual brain cells. These soft, battery-free wireless devices, actuated with light, are designed to wrap around different parts of neurons, such as axons…

4 months ago: MIT Technology Review