Press: 3Dneuro featured in Dutch newsletter Bionieuws

Last month, Bionieuws – a professional newsletter for biologists – ran a feature on 3Dneuro (Letter 7, May 14 2022). Our co-founder Tim can be seen assembling a metal microdrive.

In the interview, we covered a few themes, summarized below:

• How one of our main goals is to make experiments easier for scientists, specifically by identifying gaps overlooked by engineers when it comes to user experience.
• How the R2Drive, our metal microdrive distributed in collaboration with the Buzsaki lab at NYU, allows researchers to re-use their silicon probes up to 3 times.
• Some advantages of the rat head fixation setup we are currently developing for distribution, in a collaboration with Nelson Totah at the University of Helsinki. Enabling behavioral tasks in virtual reality environment, with animals considered “smarter” than mice, while presenting a larger brain that can accommodate more recording equipment for larger data yields.
• Our first collaborator and customer on the Radboud campus, Mike X Cohen.
• Our current effort to transition to an open source model.
• The precision of stereolithography 3D printing.

The full article, in Dutch, is behind a paywall. Pdf version available on request.