1. Editor's Letter

   • Mauro Ferrari

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 239 - 240

2. Changes in U.S. Patent Practice: Published Applications

   • Peter Dehlinger

   OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 243

3. Microelectrode Array Recordings of Patterned Hippocampal Neurons for Four Weeks

   • John C. Chang
   • Gregory J. Brewer
   • Bruce C. Wheeler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 245 - 253

4. An Electrophoretic Method for Microstamping Biomolecule Gradients

   • Ravikumar A. Venkateswar
   • Darren W. Branch
   • Bruce C. Wheeler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 264

5. Porosified Silicon Wafer Structures Impregnated With Platinum Anti-Tumor Compounds: Fabrication, Characterization, and Diffusion Studies

   • Xin Li
   • John St. John
   • Leigh T. Canham

   OriginalPaper Pages: 265 - 272

6. Nanomechanics, and Biomedical Nanomechanics: Eshelby's Inclusion and Inhomogeneity Problems at the Discrete/Continuum Interface

   • Mauro Ferrari

   OriginalPaper Pages: 273 - 281

7. Micromachined, Polyimide-Based Devices for Flexible Neural Interfaces

   • Thomas Stieglitz
   • Hansjo¨rg Beutel
   • J.-Uwe Meyer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 283 - 294

8. Microfabricated Polysilicon Microneedles for Minimally Invasive Biomedical Devices

   • Jeffrey D. Zahn
   • Neil H. Talbot
   • Albert P. Pisano

   OriginalPaper Pages: 295 - 303

9. An Analysis of Unicellular Mass Transfer Using a Microfabricated Experimental Technique

   • Kelvan P. Howard
   • Boris Rubinsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 305 - 316

10. Topographical Patterning of Chemically Sensitive Biological Materials Using a Polymer-Based Dry Lift Off

    • B. Ilic
    • H. G. Craighead

    OriginalPaper Pages: 317 - 322