{"id":11182,"date":"2014-05-18T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11182"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:07:35","slug":"scientists-reconnect-severed-nerves-with-liquid-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/scientists-reconnect-severed-nerves-with-liquid-metal","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Reconnect Severed Nerves With Liquid Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"meta-wrap\">\n<div class=\"meta\"><a class=\"tracking_article_author\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/author\/adam-clark-estes\/\" rel=\"author\" data-tracking-name=\"Adam Clark Estes\"> Adam Clark Estes <\/a>- Gizmodo<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<p>Get your T-1000 jokes ready, because we\u2019re one step closer to liquid metal-powered people. As a team of Chinese biomedical engineers recently used an alloy to close the gap between severed sciatic nerves in frogs. In effect, it made electronic circuits out of nerves \u2014 and it worked.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-771495\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, this sci-fi solution is as simple as it sounds. Looking for a way to keep muscles active while nerves healed, the Tsinghua University researchers identified liquid metal as a highly conductive but also safe material to bridge the gap. They decided on the liquid metal alloy gallium-indium-selenium, a benign material that\u2019s liquid at body temperature. (This liquid metal is not to be confused with the brand-name wonder material Liquidmetal, which is not actually a liquid.) The liquid metal alloy is also highly conductive.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2014\/04\/scientists-have-reconnected-severed-nerves-with-liquid-metal\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Clark Estes \u2014 Gizmodo Get your T-1000 jokes ready, because we\u2019re one step closer to liquid metal-powered people. As a team of Chinese biomedical engineers recently used an alloy to close the gap between severed sciatic nerves in frogs. In effect, it made electronic circuits out of nerves \u2014 and it worked. Shockingly, this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64978,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions\/64978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}