{"id":89907,"date":"2019-04-24T12:22:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/self-powered-pacemaker-for-life-in-pigs-unveiled"},"modified":"2019-04-24T12:22:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:22:58","slug":"self-powered-pacemaker-for-life-in-pigs-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/self-powered-pacemaker-for-life-in-pigs-unveiled","title":{"rendered":"Self-powered \u2018pacemaker for life\u2019 in pigs unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-powered-pacemaker-for-life-in-pigs-unveiled2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists on Tuesday unveiled a battery-free pacemaker that generates its energy from the heartbeats of pigs in what could pave the way for an \u201cimplant for life\u201d in humans suffering from heart defects.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of patients rely on pacemakers \u2014small electrical implants in the chest of abdomen\u2014to help regulate their heartbeats after chronic or acute illness.<\/p>\n<p>Even with recent technological advances, pacemaker batteries can be rigid or bulky, and may need replacing several times over the lifespan of a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">device<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-04-self-powered-pacemaker-life-pigs-unveiled.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists on Tuesday unveiled a battery-free pacemaker that generates its energy from the heartbeats of pigs in what could pave the way for an \u201cimplant for life\u201d in humans suffering from heart defects. Millions of patients rely on pacemakers \u2014small electrical implants in the chest of abdomen\u2014to help regulate their heartbeats after chronic or acute [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89907","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}