At the Fall 2017 Materials Research Society conference held in Boston, Charles M. Lieber, the Joshua and Beth Friedman University Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, presented on his lab's recent innovations in bio-friendly bioelectronics.
The below article, from the December 7, 2017 issue of Science magazine, explores how Dr. Lieber and researchers at Stanford University are crafting tools that "could lead to innovative treatments...for everything from blindness and paralysis to brain diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's." Such tools allow researchers to listen to neural activity and uncover how the brain operates. And, in the future, these same tools could achieve a more active role and not just listen to the brain but talk to it.
