Technology Quarterly | Getting wired up

Crossing the brain’s electrical frontier

New ways of getting inside patients’ heads

The stent is a commonplace miracle. Every year millions of people around the world have their coronary arteries enlarged and reinforced by these life-saving little expandable tubes of mesh. The elect club of those who have had their whole worlds enlarged by “stentrodes”, on the other hand, numbers just three.

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