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Getting close to the action

Nature Nanotechnology volume 7, pages143–145(2012)Cite this article

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Two independent groups have demonstrated that nanoscale electrodes can record action potentials in neurons and cardiac muscle cells, and a third group has shown that nanowire field-effect transistors can make electrical measurements on biological materials with unprecedented spatial resolution.

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Figure 1: Getting inside cells.

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  • 22 February 2012

    In the News & Views article 'Getting close to the action' originally published online (Nature Nanotech. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.22 2012), the signal-to-noise ratio determined by Cui and co-workers was given incorrectly as '∼7'; it should have read 'over 100'. This error has now been corrected in all versions of the News & Views article.'

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  1. Vladimir Parpura is in the Department of Neurobiology, Center for Glial Biology in Medicine, Civitan International Research Center, Atomic Force Microscopy & Nanotechnology Laboratories, Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama 35294, USA

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