{"id":213185,"date":"2025-05-03T13:07:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/this-rice-sized-pacemaker-heals-the-heart-then-disappears"},"modified":"2025-05-03T13:07:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T18:07:39","slug":"this-rice-sized-pacemaker-heals-the-heart-then-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/this-rice-sized-pacemaker-heals-the-heart-then-disappears","title":{"rendered":"This Rice-Sized Pacemaker Heals the Heart, Then Disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-rice-sized-pacemaker-heals-the-heart-then-disappears2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Northwestern University has unveiled a pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice that needs no surgery or wires. Injected into the body, it stimulates the heart, then dissolves after healing, offering a safer solution for temporary pacing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northwestern University has unveiled a pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice that needs no surgery or wires. Injected into the body, it stimulates the heart, then dissolves after healing, offering a safer solution for temporary pacing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213185","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}