When Muhammad Khatib, PhD, a Palestinian raised in Israel, now working at Stanford University as a postdoc, described his research to Inside Precision Medicine , there was a peaceful, restrained urgency behind his words. “I care a lot about human suffering,” Khatib said. “I want to use my expertise and skills to find ways to minimize it.”

That mission has propelled Khatib from his hometown in Israel to Stanford University, where he is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of chemical engineering professor Zhenan Bao, PhD. Their recent paper in Nature introduces NeuroString, a new class of electronic fibers thinner than a human hair and as soft as a rubber band. Implanted inside the body, these flexible devices can record, transmit, and even stimulate biological signals.

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