Microprobes for Life Sciences Forges Strategic Alliance With Tohoku-MicroTec Co., Ltd to Offer Multichannel Silicon Neural Interfaces

GAITHERSBURG, MD — (Marketwire) — 10/10/12 — , a leading provider of electrode systems, and Tohoku-MicroTec, a leading Japanese company in the 3D-stacked LSI technology, have signed a strategic alliance for developing and carrying out research on state of the art MEMS based neural interfaces. Our novel product family, called intends to offer alternatives for multichannel cortical and deep brain recordings, stimulation, local drug delivery and optogenetic studies.Based on the precisely contr