{"id":186928,"date":"2024-04-07T04:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-virtual-second-skin-allows-parents-to-touch-their-isolated-sick-children"},"modified":"2024-04-07T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T09:23:06","slug":"this-virtual-second-skin-allows-parents-to-touch-their-isolated-sick-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/this-virtual-second-skin-allows-parents-to-touch-their-isolated-sick-children","title":{"rendered":"This virtual second skin allows parents to \u2018touch\u2019 their isolated sick children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-virtual-second-skin-allows-parents-to-touch-their-isolated-sick-children2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It reduces stress, boosts the immune system, and relieves pain. Touch is even crucial to our survival. Babies can die if they don\u2019t get it. Additionally, the lack of it in a child\u2019s\u2018life can stunt their growth in various ways.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, scientists at Saarland University developed the smart textile with therapeutic and medicinal value in mind.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that with this technology, seriously ill children in hospital isolation wards gain the chance to feel their parents\u2019 closeness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It reduces stress, boosts the immune system, and relieves pain. Touch is even crucial to our survival. Babies can die if they don\u2019t get it. Additionally, the lack of it in a child\u2019s\u2018life can stunt their growth in various ways. Thus, scientists at Saarland University developed the smart textile with therapeutic and medicinal value in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186928","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}