{"id":209070,"date":"2025-03-18T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/bacteria-invasion-of-brain-after-implants-threatens-long-term-device-effectiveness-research-finds"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:46:45","slug":"bacteria-invasion-of-brain-after-implants-threatens-long-term-device-effectiveness-research-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/bacteria-invasion-of-brain-after-implants-threatens-long-term-device-effectiveness-research-finds","title":{"rendered":"Bacteria invasion of brain after implants threatens long-term device effectiveness, research finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacteria-invasion-of-brain-after-implants-threatens-long-term-device-effectiveness-research-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain implants hold immense promise for restoring function in patients with paralysis, epilepsy and other neurological disorders. But a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University has discovered that bacteria can invade the brain after a medical device is implanted, contributing to inflammation and reducing the device\u2019s long-term effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>The research, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-56979-4\" target=\"_blank\"><i><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>, could improve the long-term success of brain implants now that a target has been identified to address.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the role of bacteria in implant performance and brain health could revolutionize how these devices are designed and maintained,\u201d said Jeff Capadona, Case Western Reserve\u2019s vice provost for innovation, the Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and senior research career scientist at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain implants hold immense promise for restoring function in patients with paralysis, epilepsy and other neurological disorders. But a team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University has discovered that bacteria can invade the brain after a medical device is implanted, contributing to inflammation and reducing the device\u2019s long-term effectiveness. The research, published in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209070","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=209070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}