Apr 26th, 2016
This Medical Gel Holds the Key to Our Cyborg Future
The biggest challenge to implanting complicated electronics within ourselves is our own immune system's tendency to reject foreign bodies. Xuanhe Zhao, a scientist at MIT, has developed a flexible and sticky plastic gel that will provide an interface between these two very incompatible materials. (Video by Drew Beebe.) (Source: Bloomberg) (Source: Bloomberg)
