{"id":28967,"date":"2016-08-15T17:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T00:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/no-more-pills-tiny-nerve-zapping-implants-to-fight-disease"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:58:34","slug":"no-more-pills-tiny-nerve-zapping-implants-to-fight-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/no-more-pills-tiny-nerve-zapping-implants-to-fight-disease","title":{"rendered":"No More Pills? Tiny Nerve-Zapping Implants to Fight Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NhXtSy-Ccvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a future where we can treat diabetes or autoimmune disorders with an electrical zap delivered by a device no larger than a speck of dust.<\/p>\n<p>The device, implanted through microsurgery, sits silently on a single nerve bundle, monitoring electrical signals sent out by the brain to itself and various organs in the body.<\/p>\n<p>When it detects a problem \u2014 a rogue misfire, or a shift in activity patterns \u2014 the device powers up, sending out counter-pulses to correct the signal. In this way, it keeps your body running smoothly and disease at bay. No pills. No injections. No pain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/07\/no-more-pills-tiny-nerve-zapping-implants-to-fight-disease\/?utm_source=StoryGrid&utm_medium=link&utm_campaign=content+access\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/07\/no-more-pills-tiny-nerv...ent+access<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a future where we can treat diabetes or autoimmune disorders with an electrical zap delivered by a device no larger than a speck of dust. The device, implanted through microsurgery, sits silently on a single nerve bundle, monitoring electrical signals sent out by the brain to itself and various organs in the body. When [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28967","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\/28967","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60780,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28967\/revisions\/60780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}