Our brain has billions of neurons connect to each other, and communicate the information between each other in a fraction of a second. Neurons communicate by movement of chemicals across a small gap called the Synapse, and then chemicals called Neurotransmitters are released from a site called the presynaptic nerve terminal, to the receptor side on the other neuron.

The process of transmitting information between neurons.

We were born that way, and this process of transferring information in our brain is automated, we cannot see it, and we don’t have a full control of it. But scientists from the Kroligska institute in Sweden managed to create artificial brain cells called “delivery electrode” to pass signals within the mind in the same way as our own nerve cells.

The team is hoping that this new breakthrough in medicine could treat many people around the globe who have neurological diseases such as hearing loss, epilepsy and Parkinson’s.

The “delivery electrode” is basically a piece of plastic which can transmit electricity, and the team led by Prof Agneta Richter-Dhlfors is planning on implanting small unit of cells in the body hoping to restore people’s hearing and treat many other diseases.

Via – Telegraph