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Swedes Explore Computer Interface for Your Biceps

Swedish researchers are building a computer interface for your body.

With a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have described a means of inserting "ion gates" into neurons. The goal, Dr. Magnus Berggren tells Wired, is to create an interface that lets machines control and regulate "physiology pathways in biological systems" — and that includes you.

Neurons communicate through specialized molecules that trigger what are called neurotransmitters. Acetylcholine, for instance, controls muscle movement. The device described by the researchers would sit inside your body and act as a kind of repository for neurotransmitters. When the brain — or an outside computer — signals that these neurotransmitters are needed in a muscle or organ, the device would release these neurotransmitters so that the proper instructions could be carried out.

By Caleb Garling

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/swedish-researchers-bionics/

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