{"id":151882,"date":"2022-12-05T05:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nano-magnets-can-be-used-to-restore-damaged-nerve-cells-bar-ilan"},"modified":"2022-12-05T05:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T11:23:09","slug":"nano-magnets-can-be-used-to-restore-damaged-nerve-cells-bar-ilan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nano-magnets-can-be-used-to-restore-damaged-nerve-cells-bar-ilan","title":{"rendered":"Nano-magnets can be used to restore damaged nerve cells \u2014Bar-Ilan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-magnets-can-be-used-to-restore-damaged-nerve-cells-bar-ilan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These fundamental units of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/health-and-wellness\/mind-and-spirit\/article-709099\">brain and nervous system<\/a> \u2013 composed of the cell body, the dendrites and the axon (a long, thin extension responsible for communicating with other cells) \u2013 receive sensory input from the external world, send motor commands to our muscles and for transform and relay the electrical signals at every step in between.<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"blockquote_cite_fcf6095e-04a4-0b87-31a4-7c2d7b05be61\" class=\"aligncenter\"><p>\u201cOur novel method of creating \u2018mini-brains\u2019 opens the door to finding solutions for various neurological impairments\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prof. Orit Shefi and doctoral student Reut Plen from the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/science\/article-691835\">Bar-Ilan University (BIU)<\/a> have developed a novel technique to overcome this challenge using nanotechnology and magnetic manipulations \u2013 one of the most innovative approaches to creating neural networks. Their research was recently published in the peer-reviewed journal <em>Advanced Functional Materials<\/em> under the title \u201cBioengineering 3D Neural Networks Using Magnetic Manipulations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These fundamental units of the brain and nervous system \u2013 composed of the cell body, the dendrites and the axon (a long, thin extension responsible for communicating with other cells) \u2013 receive sensory input from the external world, send motor commands to our muscles and for transform and relay the electrical signals at every step [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-nanotechnology","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151882","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}