{"id":77870,"date":"2018-04-16T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-nanobots-and-ninja-polymers-transforming-medicine"},"modified":"2018-04-16T19:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T02:02:57","slug":"the-nanobots-and-ninja-polymers-transforming-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/the-nanobots-and-ninja-polymers-transforming-medicine","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018nanobots\u2019 and \u2019ninja polymers\u2019 transforming medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-nanobots-and-ninja-polymers-transforming-medicine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With advances in stem cell research and nanotechnology helping us fight illnesses from heart disease to superbugs, is the fusion of biology and technology speeding us towards a sci-fi future \u2014 part human, part synthetic?<\/p>\n<p>In Ridley Scott\u2019s seminal blockbuster Blade Runner, humanity has harnessed bio-engineering to create a race of replicants that look, act and sound human \u2014 but are made entirely from synthetic material.<\/p>\n<p>We may be far from realising that sci-fi future, but synthetics are beginning to have a profound effect on medicine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-43781851\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-43781851<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With advances in stem cell research and nanotechnology helping us fight illnesses from heart disease to superbugs, is the fusion of biology and technology speeding us towards a sci-fi future \u2014 part human, part synthetic? In Ridley Scott\u2019s seminal blockbuster Blade Runner, humanity has harnessed bio-engineering to create a race of replicants that look, act [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77870","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}