Less Invasive Access to the Brain Through Very Tiny Skull Holes
Access brain fluids through much tinier holes than currently possible to facilitate less invasive delivery of drugs or devices to intracranial or intraventricular spaces.
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Large portions of the living human brain are difficult to observe and modulate with current technologies. Safer, noninvasive, or minimally invasive methods are needed to capture real-time brain state information.
One funding program dedicated to making advancements in this space is that of ARIA (UK science R&D agency), which launched the Scalable Neural Interfaces opportunity space to support a new suite of tools to interface with the human brain at scale.