MIT researchers are using living cells to target diseased brain areas and deliver tiny electronic devices that can modulate ...

A paralysed man has been able to move his fingers and hand with his own thoughts thanks to a pioneering operation that implanted a microchip in his brain. Ian Burkhart, a 23-year-old quadriplegic from ...

Despite advances in computing, today's computers remain far less efficient than the 3-lb. (2.3-kg) hunk of matter in our skulls. But a new microchip modeled on the human brain is much faster and more ...

Psychiatric disorders could be treated with a tiny chip implanted in the skull after a new research programme was announced by a defense agency. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ...

A microchip inserted into the brain allows people to type - without going anywhere near a keyboard. The implant captures brain signals associated with handwriting and turns them into text on a ...