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Neural engineering

Neural engineering

Physics for excited neurons

04 Jan 2017

Some scientists claim they can control genetically engineered neurons using magnetic fields. Have they and the high-profile journals that published their research failed to understand basic physics? Edwin Cartlidge investigates

Artwork of neurons
(Courtesy: Henning Dalhoff/Science Photo Library)
“Badass”. That was the word Harvard University neuroscientist Steve Ramirez used in a Tweet to d

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Edwin Cartlidge is a science writer based in Rome, Italy, e-mail edwin.cartlidge@yahoo.com
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