Electroceutical devices that stimulate the peripheral nervous system come to the fore. Emily Waltz reports.
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In the version of this article initially published, on p.908, middle column, a device referred to as a “vagal nerve” stimulator should have been called a “carotid baroreceptor” stimulator. The errors have been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.
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Waltz, E. A spark at the periphery. Nat Biotechnol 34, 904–908 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3667
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