{"id":3991,"date":"2023-06-29T09:05:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T09:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/?post_type=report&p=3396"},"modified":"2023-12-06T07:59:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T07:59:14","slug":"small-wonders","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/article\/small-wonders\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Wonders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Although X-trodes<\/strong> was founded only a year ago, its main technological development \u2013 smart systems for monitoring neural activity \u2013 will accompany us for years to come and will assist in the early detection of patients with neural diseases. “The technology is in the form of a sticker that enables us to monitor and measure the activity of patients’ muscles and brain, during sleep for example, or while they go about their daily lives”, explains Prof. Yael Hanein<\/strong>, the company’s CTO and the person who led the development together with her team at Tel Aviv University. “The sticker contains special electrodes that transmit two-way signals to and from the nervous system and the muscles. This information is recorded and monitored for early detection of different neural diseases”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Prof. Hanein served until recently as the Director of the Tel Aviv University’s Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and she currently leads a research group studying neural engineering that focuses on the development of electronic nanodevices, primarily those that interface with brain cells. “Several years ago, we began studying and working on systems aimed at neural sensing, mainly of muscle activity and electrophysiological monitoring”, Prof. Hanein explains. We received a license from Tel Aviv University<\/strong> to commercialize the technology and are presently working on three central products: an evaluation system for developers, a product in the field of sports, and a neurological diagnosis product in the field of sleep disorders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “The sticker is passive and connects to an electronic component that amplifies the electric signal from the body, stores it, and transmits it to a computer. The system itself is made up of three elements: the soft sticker with silver strips for conduction and carbon electrodes that receive the signals and perform electric stimulation, the micro-electronic component that amplifies the signals and transfers them to the app, and the accumulated data which becomes a relevant answer to the medical question”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n