{"id":27877,"date":"2016-07-15T12:31:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-biocompatible-transparent-therapeutic-window-to-the-brain"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:18:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:18:20","slug":"a-biocompatible-transparent-therapeutic-window-to-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-biocompatible-transparent-therapeutic-window-to-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"A biocompatible, transparent therapeutic window to the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-biocompatible-transparent-therapeutic-window-to-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Illustration of the Window to the Brain\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-biocompatible-transparent-therapeutic-window-to-the-brain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"403\"><b><center>An illustration showing how the \u201cwindow to the brain\u201d transparent skull implant created by UC Riverside researchers would work (credit: UC Riverside)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a transparent \u201cwindow to the brain\u201d \u2014 a skull implant that is biocompatible, infection-resistant, and does not need to be repetitively replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the ongoing \u201cWindow to the Brain\u201d project, a multi-institution, cross-disciplinary effort, the idea is to use transparent skull implants to provide laser diagnosis and treatment of a wide variety of brain pathologies, including brain cancers, traumatic brain injury, stroke, and neurodegenerative diseases, without requiring repeated craniotomies (a surgical operation in which a bone flap is temporarily removed from the skull to access the brain). Such operations are vulnerable to bacterial infections.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A biocompatible transparent material<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The researchers have developed a transparent version of the material yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), a ceramic material used in hip implants and dental crowns.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-biocompatible-transparent-therapeutic-window-to-the-brain\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-biocompatible-transparent-therap...-the-brain<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An illustration showing how the \u201cwindow to the brain\u201d transparent skull implant created by UC Riverside researchers would work (credit: UC Riverside) Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a transparent \u201cwindow to the brain\u201d \u2014 a skull implant that is biocompatible, infection-resistant, and does not need to be repetitively replaced. Part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27877","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\/27877","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50153,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27877\/revisions\/50153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}