TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · May 20

🧬 When a brain implant loses signal, the field assumes the neurons died. That assumption has driven decades of strategy: softer materials, anti-inflammatory coatings, smaller electrodes, all to protect neurons. We tested whether neurons were the problem. They weren't.

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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai · May 20

🔬 We engineered mice where we could selectively alter one non-neuronal cell type, oligodendrocytes (the cells that wrap and insulate nerve fibers), while leaving every neuron untouched. Same electrode. Same surgery. Same neurons. Only variable: oligodendrocyte health.