{"id":21175,"date":"2016-01-24T23:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T07:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-tiny-device-inside-of-mice-sends-light-to-nerves"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:28","slug":"a-tiny-device-inside-of-mice-sends-light-to-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-tiny-device-inside-of-mice-sends-light-to-nerves","title":{"rendered":"A tiny device inside of mice sends light to nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-tiny-device-inside-of-mice-sends-light-to-nerves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have implanted a wireless device the size of a peppercorn inside mice to stimulate nerves.<\/p>\n<p>The technique combines optogenetics\u2014using light to control the activity of the brain\u2014with a newly developed method for wirelessly powering implanted devices. It\u2019s described in a paper published in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1038\/nmeth.3536\" target=\"_blank\">Nature Methods<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a new way of delivering wireless power for optogenetics,\u201d says Ada Poon, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. \u201cIt\u2019s much smaller and the mouse can move around during an experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northdallasgazette.com\/2016\/01\/24\/a-tiny-device-inside-of-mice-sends-light-to-nerves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting Scientists have implanted a wireless device the size of a peppercorn inside mice to stimulate nerves. The technique combines optogenetics\u2014using light to control the activity of the brain\u2014with a newly developed method for wirelessly powering implanted devices. It\u2019s described in a paper published in Nature Methods. \u201cThis is a new way of delivering wireless [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68730,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21175\/revisions\/68730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}