{"id":110543,"date":"2020-07-28T02:42:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T09:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/researchers-develop-an-optical-fiber-made-of-gel-derived-from-marine-algae"},"modified":"2020-07-28T02:42:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T09:42:53","slug":"researchers-develop-an-optical-fiber-made-of-gel-derived-from-marine-algae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/researchers-develop-an-optical-fiber-made-of-gel-derived-from-marine-algae","title":{"rendered":"Researchers develop an optical fiber made of gel derived from marine algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-develop-an-optical-fiber-made-of-gel-derived-from-marine-algae.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An optical fiber made of agar has been produced at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. This device is edible, biocompatible and biodegradable. It can be used in vivo for body structure imaging, localized light delivery in phototherapy or optogenetics (e.g., stimulating neurons with light to study neural circuits in a living brain), and localized drug delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Another possible application is the detection of microorganisms in specific organs, in which case the probe would be completely absorbed by the body after performing its function.<\/p>\n<p>The research project, which was supported by S\u00e3o Paulo Research Foundation\u2014FAPESP, was led by Eric Fujiwara, a professor in UNICAMP\u2019s School of Mechanical Engineering, and Cristiano Cordeiro, a professor in UNICAMP\u2019s Gleb Wataghin Institute of Physics, in collaboration with Hiromasa Oku, a professor at Gunma University in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An optical fiber made of agar has been produced at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. This device is edible, biocompatible and biodegradable. It can be used in vivo for body structure imaging, localized light delivery in phototherapy or optogenetics (e.g., stimulating neurons with light to study neural circuits [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1506,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-food","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110543","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}