{"id":198284,"date":"2024-10-25T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-device-zaps-bacteria-on-the-skin-potentially-preventing-infections"},"modified":"2024-10-25T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:50:10","slug":"new-device-zaps-bacteria-on-the-skin-potentially-preventing-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/new-device-zaps-bacteria-on-the-skin-potentially-preventing-infections","title":{"rendered":"New device \u2018zaps\u2019 bacteria on the skin, potentially preventing infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-device-zaps-bacteria-on-the-skin-potentially-preventing-infections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial infections. However, it has not yet been tested in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early experiments suggest a patch that delivers harmless electric currents into the skin can thwart certain bacterial infections. However, it has not yet been tested in humans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198284","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\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}