This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir n°940, dated June 2025.
For patients suffering from deafness and whose auditory nerve is too damaged to benefit from cochlear implants, a Swiss team from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne has just presented a device to be placed directly on the brainstem.
Electrodes embedded in a silicone layer
Unlike previous prototypes, which were too rigid to fit the nervous tissue, this one is made of electrodes integrated into a layer of silicone, forming a flexible device less than a millimeter thick!
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