 Interesting ideas for BCI?
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Conundrum
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Sun Nov 23 2008, 10:18AM
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Registered Member #96
Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
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Hi all.
Have been reading up on the latest research concerning BCI's and it seems that in an unrelated discovery some researchers have isolated a protein which fluoresces under very specific conditions.
in this case it switches on and off faster when the cell changes temperature which could be very useful.
The basic idea here is to introduce this protein or a gene able to synthesise it into donor muscle cells which are then grafted onto the end of an existing severed motor nerve. These muscle cells then link into the nervous system and the protein fluoresces each time the cells detect an impulse.
Reading back the signals becomes a lot simpler as the fluorescence is driven from outside (allowing a simple CMOS camera chip to be used as detection)
-A
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