Existing drug can repair ion channel linked to epilepsy

14-Aug-2024 - Mutated variants of a particular ion channel cause difficult-to-treat epilepsy. A study now shows that a commonly used anaesthetic drug, propofol, can restore the function of this ion channel. The discovery was made by researchers at Linköping University and Weill Cornell Medicine. The findings ...

Soft gold enables connections between nerves and electronics

13-Aug-2024 - Gold does not readily lend itself to being turned into long, thin threads. But researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have now managed to create gold nanowires and develop soft electrodes that can be connected to the nervous system. The electrodes are soft as nerves, stretchable and ...

Relief for epilepsy at the scale of a single cell

Chemical stimulation and electrical sensing at the same site

24-Aug-2016 - Researchers at Linköping University have developed in collaboration with French colleagues a small device that both detects the initial signal of an epileptic attack and doses a substance that effectively stops it. All this takes place where the signal arises - in an area of size 20×20 μm known ...

One step closer to an artificial nerve cell

09-Jul-2009 - Scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University are well on the way to creating the first artificial nerve cell that can communicate specifically with nerve cells in the body using neurotransmitters. The technology has been published in an article in ...