Researchers grow cyborg tissues with embedded
nanoelectronics
Harvard scientists have created a type of “cyborg” tissue
for the first time by embedding a three-dimensional network of functional,
biocompatible, nanoscale wires into engineered human tissues.
As described in a paper published Aug. 26 in the journal
Nature Materials, a research team led by Charles M. Lieber, the Mark Hyman Jr.
Professor of Chemistry at Harvard, and Daniel Kohane, a Harvard Medical School
professor in the Department of Anesthesia at Children’s Hospital Boston,
developed a system for creating nanoscale “scaffolds” that can be seeded with
cells that grow into tissue.