Recent advances in soft materials and system integration technologies have provided a
unique opportunity to design various types of wearable flexible hybrid electronics (WFHE) …

Bacterial anti-phage systems are frequently clustered in microbial genomes, forming
defense islands. This property enabled the recent discovery of multiple defense systems …

Vibrations are all around us. We can detect vibrations with sensitive skin mechanoreceptors,
but our conscious awareness of the presence of vibrations is often limited. Nevertheless …

Microstimulation in the somatosensory cortex can evoke artificial tactile percepts and can be
incorporated into bidirectional brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) to restore function after …

Pacinian corpuscle neurons are specialized low-threshold mechanoreceptors (LTMRs) that
are tuned to detect high-frequency vibration (∼ 50–2,000 Hz); however, it is unclear how …

Current models to explain how signals emanating from cutaneous mechanoreceptors
generate representations of touch are based on comparisons of the tactile responses of …

Fingertip mechanoreceptors comprise sensory neuron endings together with specialized
skin cells that form the end-organ. Exquisitely sensitive, vibration-sensing neurons are …

Perceiving substrate-borne vibrations is a fundamental component of tactile perception. How
location (somatotopy) and frequency tuning (tonotopy) of vibrations are integratively …

Proprioception, the sense of self-movement and position, is mediated by mechanosensory
neurons that detect diverse features of body kinematics. Although proprioceptive feedback is …

Background Intracortical microstimulation (ICMS) is an emerging approach to restore
sensation to people with neurological injury or disease. Biomimetic microstimulation, or …