{"id":236171,"date":"2026-04-29T22:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/self-organizing-pencil-beam-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies-2"},"modified":"2026-04-29T22:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:02:29","slug":"self-organizing-pencil-beam-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/self-organizing-pencil-beam-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies-2","title":{"rendered":"Self-organizing \u201cpencil beam\u201d laser could help scientists design brain-targeted therapies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-organizing-pencil-beam-laser-could-help-scientists-design-brain-targeted-therapies4.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have found that a \u201cpencil beam\u201d laser allows brain imaging 25 times faster than current methods. This could help scientists quickly test whether new drugs for diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s or ALS are reaching their targets in the brain.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>After a surprising discovery that overcomes a longstanding problem in fiber optics, MIT researchers demonstrated a biomedical imaging technique that is faster and more precise than other methods, which could help scientists and clinicians study new brain therapies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have found that a \u201cpencil beam\u201d laser allows brain imaging 25 times faster than current methods. This could help scientists quickly test whether new drugs for diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s or ALS are reaching their targets in the brain. After a surprising discovery that overcomes a longstanding problem in fiber optics, MIT researchers demonstrated a [\u2026]<\/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-236171","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\/236171","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=236171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}