Neurochip Effort's Aim: Demystify Alzheimer's

by Ron Wilson EE Times, 24 Oct 2005 One aim of bioelectronics research into neural systems is to advance our species' understanding of the neurological ailments that beset us. In what promises to be a groundbreaking project, the Interuniversity Microelectronics Center is teaming with Catholic University Leuven and Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology to do just that. The first goal is a sophisticated chip that would serve as the electronic and chemical interface to neurons. Next up would be a technology for growing neurons "to order" on the chip. Researchers would stimulate those precisely placed neurons and measure the response. Read more