{"id":195085,"date":"2024-08-23T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/brain-prosthesis-passes-live-tissue-test"},"modified":"2024-08-23T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T03:04:01","slug":"brain-prosthesis-passes-live-tissue-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/brain-prosthesis-passes-live-tissue-test","title":{"rendered":"Brain prosthesis passes live tissue test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-prosthesis-passes-live-tissue-test3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s first brain prosthesis has passed the first stages of live testing.<\/p>\n<p>The microchip, designed to model a part of the brain called the hippocampus, has been used successfully to replace a neural circuit in slices of rat brain tissue kept alive in a dish. The prosthesis will soon be ready for testing in animals.<\/p>\n<p>The device could ultimately be used to replace damaged brain tissue which may have been destroyed in an accident, during a stroke, or by neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease. It is the first attempt to replace central brain regions dealing with cognitive functions such as learning or speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s first brain prosthesis has passed the first stages of live testing. The microchip, designed to model a part of the brain called the hippocampus, has been used successfully to replace a neural circuit in slices of rat brain tissue kept alive in a dish. The prosthesis will soon be ready for testing in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1499,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195085","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}