{"id":235172,"date":"2026-04-14T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-grow-electronics-inside-the-brains-of-living-mice"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:08:36","slug":"scientists-grow-electronics-inside-the-brains-of-living-mice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/scientists-grow-electronics-inside-the-brains-of-living-mice","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Grow Electronics Inside the Brains of Living Mice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grow-electronics-inside-the-brains-of-living-mice.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet most implants require extensive surgery and risk damaging the brain\u2019s delicate tissue. The new technology would avoid these downsides by building electrodes directly at the target.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur work points to a future where doctors could \u2018grow\u2019 soft, wire-free electronic interfaces inside the brain using the patient\u2019s own blood, then gently dial brain activity up or down from outside the head using harmless near-infrared light,\u201d study author Krishna Jayant <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/Engr\/AboutUs\/News\/Spotlights\/2026\/2026-0330-Purdue-Colleges-of-Engineering-and-Science-unite-to-pioneer-living-neuroelectronics-paper-published-in-Science\">said<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The brain produces every one of our sensations, movements, emotions, and decisions. Scientists have long sought to decode and manipulate its activity with a range of hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet most implants require extensive surgery and risk damaging the brain\u2019s delicate tissue. The new technology would avoid these downsides by building electrodes directly at the target. \u201cOur work points to a future where doctors could \u2018grow\u2019 soft, wire-free electronic interfaces inside the brain using the patient\u2019s own blood, then gently dial brain activity up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235172","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\/235172","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}