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Final Report – Human Electro-Muscular Incapacitation (HEMI): Physiological Modeling Weapons

Human Electro-Muscular Incapacitation (HEMI) weapons are developed with the intent to incapacitate a subject without being lethal. However, under some use cases, these weapons have been linked to serious injury and even death. Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) has been developing a generalized computational model based on underlying physical and biological processes, which will use

One-Step Optogenetics for Hacking the Nervous System

Engineers have taken one of biotech’s hottest tools—optogenetics—and made it better. The 12-year-old technique, which enables scientists to control brain cells with light, typically requires a multi-step process and several surgeries on animal models. Polina Anikeeva at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and her colleagues came up with an engineering solution that combines those