{"id":30276,"date":"2016-09-18T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T05:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mind-controlled-nanobots-used-to-release-chemicals-in-living-cockroaches"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:14:55","slug":"mind-controlled-nanobots-used-to-release-chemicals-in-living-cockroaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/mind-controlled-nanobots-used-to-release-chemicals-in-living-cockroaches","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Controlled Nanobots Used to Release Chemicals in Living Cockroaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-controlled-nanobots-used-to-release-chemicals-in-living-cockroaches.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is wild: a team of Israeli scientists developed a contraption that uses a person\u2019s brain waves to remotely control DNA-based nanorobots \u2014 while the nanobots were <em>inside<\/em> a living cockroach. When prompted by a human thought, the clam shell-like robots opened up, revealing a drug-like molecule that tweaked the physiology of the cockroach\u2019s cells.<\/p>\n<p>Though \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0161227\">merely a demonstration and proof of concept<\/a>,\u201d the technology represents a new era of brain-nanomachine interfaces that links a person\u2019s mental state to bioactive payloads such as drugs. Future techniques that build upon this prototype could be helpful for schizophrenia, depression or other mental disorders, in that the drugs only activate when a patient\u2019s brain waves show signs of abnormality.<\/p>\n<p>Talk about the power of positive thinking!<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/18\/mind-controlled-nanobots-used-to-release-chemicals-in-living-cockroaches\/?utm_content=buffer192a9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/09\/18\/mind-controlled-nanobot...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is wild: a team of Israeli scientists developed a contraption that uses a person\u2019s brain waves to remotely control DNA-based nanorobots \u2014 while the nanobots were inside a living cockroach. When prompted by a human thought, the clam shell-like robots opened up, revealing a drug-like molecule that tweaked the physiology of the cockroach\u2019s cells. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30276"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66207,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30276\/revisions\/66207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}