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The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun

Science, Spoken

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The Future of Electrodes

Polymer electrodes form only in the presence of specific substances. They could be used to target parts of the brain with particular chemical profiles. Soft electrodes might not be able to produce fluent speech by directly measuring someone's brain signals. But for patients who can't move at all, simply being able to convey yes or no would make an enormous difference.

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