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by mapt 701 days ago
Nope.

Headline misleading.

You can tell from background, because strong magnetic fields take an immense amount of power and space, and TMS & MRI magnets beyond 1 Tesla are the size and weight and density of an anvil. Nothing nano about magnets. Nanotech interacting electrically, sure, but nanotech interacting with living tissue magnetically is ludicrous.

Reading the actual article:

It isn't nanotech, it isn't controlling "the brain", it's testing a brain specifically genetically engineered to express magnetically sensitive control/sensory input sites that a TMS can target selectively.