{"id":23623,"date":"2016-03-16T19:18:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-power-to-heal-tiny-generator-could-repair-damaged-brains-and-give-soldiers-an-edge"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:05:53","slug":"the-power-to-heal-tiny-generator-could-repair-damaged-brains-and-give-soldiers-an-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/the-power-to-heal-tiny-generator-could-repair-damaged-brains-and-give-soldiers-an-edge","title":{"rendered":"The power to heal: tiny generator could repair damaged brains, and give soldiers an edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-power-to-heal-tiny-generator-could-repair-damaged-brains-and-give-soldiers-an-edge.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists have developed a nano-sized electric generator that can disappear without a trace inside the human body over time, a breakthrough they claim will bring biodegradable implants on microchips closer to reality.<\/p>\n<p>The technology, reported on the latest issue of <em>Science Advances<\/em> journal, will have a wide range of applications as it can generate electric pulses to repair damaged neurons and power \u201cbrain chip\u201d implants for soldiers in the future, pundits said.<\/p>\n<p>At present, most implants must be surgically removed at the end of their lifespan. To address this issue, a number of small electric devices made from biodegradable materials that can absorbed by the human body after use have been developed around the world.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/science-research\/article\/1925655\/power-heal-tiny-generator-could-repair-damaged-brains-and-give\">http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/science-research\/article\/1925655\/po...s-and-give<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists have developed a nano-sized electric generator that can disappear without a trace inside the human body over time, a breakthrough they claim will bring biodegradable implants on microchips closer to reality. The technology, reported on the latest issue of Science Advances journal, will have a wide range of applications as it can generate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1635,4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-materials","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623","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=23623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67988,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623\/revisions\/67988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}