{"id":121344,"date":"2021-04-08T15:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/brain-glue-helps-repair-circuitry-in-severe-tbi"},"modified":"2021-04-08T15:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T22:22:38","slug":"brain-glue-helps-repair-circuitry-in-severe-tbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/brain-glue-helps-repair-circuitry-in-severe-tbi","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brain Glue\u2019 Helps Repair Circuitry in Severe TBI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-glue-helps-repair-circuitry-in-severe-tbi.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: A newly developed reparative hydrogel, which researchers are dubbing \u201cbrain glue\u201d, protects against loss of brain tissue following a TBI and can aid in functional neural repair.<\/p>\n<p>Source: University of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>At a cost of $38 billion a year, an estimated 5.3 million people are living with a permanent disability related to traumatic brain injury in the United States today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The physical, mental and financial toll of a TBI can be enormous, but new research from the University of Georgia provides promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: A newly developed reparative hydrogel, which researchers are dubbing \u201cbrain glue\u201d, protects against loss of brain tissue following a TBI and can aid in functional neural repair. Source: University of Georgia. At a cost of $38 billion a year, an estimated 5.3 million people are living with a permanent disability related to traumatic brain [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121344","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}