An innovative medical device will be tested on brain tumor patients for the first time. This discovery may save the lives of people suffering from brain cancer.
A revolutionary device is entering clinical testing. Photo: The Truth Archive
According to The Guardian, the brain chip detects cancer cells.
This tiny stamp-sized device is made of a material called graphene. Graphene is 200 times stronger than steel and as thin as a single atom. It was discovered 20 years ago by two scientists who received a Nobel Prize for this achievement.
One of the newest and most exciting ways to use graphene is in a very small chip that can be put into the brain. Kostas Kostarelos, professor of nanomedicine at Manchester testified: “This is the first clinical trial conducted anywhere in the world with a graphene-based medical device.”
The BCI (brain-computer interface) device has been developed to record the brain’s electrical activity with much greater precision than in the past. By analyzing these signals, doctors will be able to accurately identify areas affected by brain tumors, thus allowing for a more complete and safer tumor resection.
The device is implanted intracranially, in direct contact with the cerebral area of interest. Through the electrodes, both the electrical stimulation of neurons and the recording of action potentials are achieved, thus providing a direct neural interface. “Cancer cells do not respond to electrical stimulation triggered by the chip, unlike host neural cells,” researcher Kostarelos also said.
This special chip can detect very weak and very strong signals from the brain. This is important because, for example, when someone has a stroke, the brain sends very weak signals. This chip can help us better understand what happens in the brain in such situations.
