{"id":103996,"date":"2020-03-19T16:26:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/a-surprising-breakthrough-will-allow-tiny-implants-to-fix-and-even-upgrade-your-body"},"modified":"2020-03-19T16:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:26:02","slug":"a-surprising-breakthrough-will-allow-tiny-implants-to-fix-and-even-upgrade-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/a-surprising-breakthrough-will-allow-tiny-implants-to-fix-and-even-upgrade-your-body","title":{"rendered":"A Surprising Breakthrough Will Allow Tiny Implants to Fix \u2013 and Even Upgrade \u2013 Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ja0euppwnGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Known as an ion-gated transistor (IGT), the new class of technology effectively melds electronics with molecules of human skin.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But wait, you no longer need any of those, since you recently got one of the new biomed implants \u2014 a device that integrates seamlessly with body tissues, because of a watershed breakthrough that happened in the early 2020s. It\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/ionic-transistor-can-be-used-in-medical-bioelectronics\/\">improved biological transistor<\/a> driven by electrically charged particles that move in and out of your own cells. Like insulin pumps and cardiac pacemakers, the medical implants of the future will go where they are needed, on or inside the body.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Scientists at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Columbia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Columbia<\/a> built a new ion-driven transistor that can safely interact with human skin. What does this mean for the future of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/medical?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#medical<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/bioelectronics?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#bioelectronics<\/a>? Find out via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhysicsWorld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PhysicsWorld<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/bddy.me\/2YsvJ0g\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bddy.me\/2YsvJ0g\">https:\/\/bddy.me\/2YsvJ0g<\/a><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/wearabletech?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#wearabletech<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/healthIT?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#healthIT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LamResearch\/status\/1110689911689175041\/photo\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/qj3LX3Dqfx\">pic.twitter.com\/qj3LX3Dqfx<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lam Research (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LamResearch\">@LamResearch<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LamResearch\/status\/1110689911689175041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Known as an ion-gated transistor (IGT), the new class of technology effectively melds electronics with molecules of human skin. But wait, you no longer need any of those, since you recently got one of the new biomed implants \u2014 a device that integrates seamlessly with body tissues, because of a watershed breakthrough that happened in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}