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Engineering and manipulating phase-separated liquid organelles is the latest frontier in the quest to mimic and interrogate living systems at the molecular level.
Tissue-like electronic interfaces that form stable long-term interfaces in the brain will enable treatment of chronic neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Anikeeva and colleagues review the state of the art in technologies that enable discoveries of brain function and the development of novel therapeutic approaches.