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A spark at the periphery

Nature Biotechnology volume 34, pages 904–908 (2016)Cite this article

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Electroceutical devices that stimulate the peripheral nervous system come to the fore. Emily Waltz reports.

Unlike electrical therapies of the past, these new commercial efforts aim to harness knowledge of neurophysiology and molecular mechanisms to guide the design of neuromodulation devices. Together with an ongoing influx of funding from several large organizations (Box 1), biomedical engineers are generating the tools and maps they need to build better, more targeted neurostimulation devices.

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  • 13 October 2016

    In the version of this article initially published, on p.908, middle column, a device referred to as a “vagal nerve” stimulator should have been called a “carotid baroreceptor” stimulator. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

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Waltz, E. A spark at the periphery. Nat Biotechnol 34, 904–908 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3667

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