Michel Maharbiz, Jose Carmena, Elad Alon and Jan Rabaey build the first implantable dust-sized wireless sensors

Prof. Michel Maharbiz and Jose Carmena‘s paper on Neural Dust is featured by the online journal Neuron (Vol. 91, Issue 3, August 2016) in an article titled “Wireless Recording in the Peripheral Nervous System with Ultrasonic Neural Dust“. They, with Profs. Elad Alon and Jan Rabaey and a team of engineers,  have built the first dust-sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body that could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time. And because they are batteryless, they could also be used to stimulate nerves and muscles, opening the door to “electroceuticals’ to treat disorders such as epilepsy , to stimulate the immune system or bring down inflammation. Articles have also appeared in:

Scientific American –  “Neural Dust” Could Enable a Fitbit for the Nervous System

UC Berkeley News – Sprinkling of neural dust opens door to electroceuticals

C|NET – Beyond Fitbit: ‘Neural dust’ puts invisible cyborg tech deep inside you

Popular Science – Wireless ‘Neural Dust’ Could Monitor Your Brain