{"id":225375,"date":"2025-11-18T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-hair-thin-brain-fibers-could-help-treat-alzheimers-epilepsy-and-parkinsons"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:13:21","slug":"how-hair-thin-brain-fibers-could-help-treat-alzheimers-epilepsy-and-parkinsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/how-hair-thin-brain-fibers-could-help-treat-alzheimers-epilepsy-and-parkinsons","title":{"rendered":"How hair-thin brain fibers could help treat Alzheimer\u2019s, epilepsy, and Parkinson\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-hair-thin-brain-fibers-could-help-treat-alzheimers-epilepsy-and-parkinsons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, Xiaoting Jia, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Virginia Tech, has been developing neural implant fibers \u2014 hair-thin, flexible tubes through which she can run electronics and deliver drug therapy to treat those devastating neurological conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than a decade, Xiaoting Jia, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Virginia Tech, has been developing neural implant fibers \u2014 hair-thin, flexible tubes through which she can run electronics and deliver drug therapy to treat those devastating neurological conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225375","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\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}