Fiber photometry is increasingly utilized to monitor fluorescent sensors of neural activity in
the brain. However, most implementations are based on flat-cleaved optical fibers that can …

Over the past decade, remotely powered micro actuators have gained increased attention
for biomedical and environmental remediation applications, owing to their ability to access …

Optogenetics offers many advantages in terms of cell-type specificity, allowing to investigate
functional connectivity between different brain areas at high spatial and neural population …

Research in the field of Optogenetics has matured to the extent that in vivo implementations
are more frequent in the literature. The majority of these employs different variants of optical …

'My favourite author has done it again. Numbers Don't Lie is by far his most accessible book
to date, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about the world. I unabashedly …

Cranes are a familiar fixture of practically any city skyline, but one in the Swiss City of Ticino,
near the Italian border, would stand out anywhere: It has six arms. This 110-meter-high …

This review focuses on the role that micro and nanotechnologies are having in the
development of a new generation of optical neural interfaces for deep brain regions. The …

Thin-film piezoelectric materials are currently employed in micro-and nanodevices for
energy harvesting and mechanical sensing. The deposition of these functional layers …

The field of implantable optical neural interfaces has recently enabled the interrogation of
neural circuitry with both cell-type specificity and spatial resolution in sub-cortical structures …

Since the advent of optogenetics, the technology development has focused on new methods
to optically interact with single nerve cells. This gave rise to the field of photonic neural …