{"id":75538,"date":"2018-01-24T12:22:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/tiny-implant-opens-way-to-deliver-drugs-deep-into-the-brain"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:22:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:22:33","slug":"tiny-implant-opens-way-to-deliver-drugs-deep-into-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/tiny-implant-opens-way-to-deliver-drugs-deep-into-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Tiny implant opens way to deliver drugs deep into the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tiny-implant-opens-way-to-deliver-drugs-deep-into-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision.<\/p>\n<p>Tested only in animals so far, if the device pans out it could mark a new approach to treating brain diseases \u2014 potentially reducing side effects by targeting only the hard-to-reach circuits that need care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou could deliver things right to where you want, no matter the disease,\u201d said Robert Langer, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose biomedical engineering team reported the research Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/tiny-implant-opens-way-to-deliver-drugs-deep-into-the-brain\/2018\/01\/24\/a64b685e-0139-11e8-86b9-8908743c79dd_story.html?utm_term=.511906ee9af6\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/tiny-...1906ee9af6<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Scientists have created a hair-thin implant that can drip medications deep into the brain by remote control and with pinpoint precision. Tested only in animals so far, if the device pans out it could mark a new approach to treating brain diseases \u2014 potentially reducing side effects by targeting only the hard-to-reach circuits [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75538","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}