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Implantable waveguides

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The development of hydrogel patches that both guide light and accommodate optogenetic cells could usher in a new breed of implantable systems for in-body optical sensing and therapy.

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Figure 1: Schematics of implantable hydrogel patches.

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  1. Edward A. Sykes, Alexandre Albanese and Warren C. W. Chan are at the Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering and the Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G9, Canada,

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Sykes, E., Albanese, A. & Chan, W. Implantable waveguides. Nature Photon 7, 940–941 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.308

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