image: These signal-recording spinal implants are stretchy, flexible and highly resilient, capable of withstanding more than the natural pliability of mammalian spinal cords. Penny size comparison. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 29, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Lu at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Flexible and stretchable nanowire-coated fibers for optoelectronic probing of spinal cord circuits." view more
Credit: [Credit: Lu <i>et al.</i> Sci. Adv. 2017;3:e1600955]