{"id":91845,"date":"2019-06-10T10:02:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/this-insane-nanochip-device-can-heal-tissue-just-by-touching-the-skin-once"},"modified":"2019-06-10T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T17:02:47","slug":"this-insane-nanochip-device-can-heal-tissue-just-by-touching-the-skin-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/this-insane-nanochip-device-can-heal-tissue-just-by-touching-the-skin-once","title":{"rendered":"This Insane Nanochip Device Can Heal Tissue Just by Touching The Skin Once"},"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\/tMQ51Kj2tS0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine buzzing the skin over an internal wound with an electrical device and having it heal over just a few days \u2013 that\u2019s the promise of new nanochip technology that can reprogram cells to replace tissue or even whole organs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), and while it\u2019s only been tested on mice and pigs so far, the early signs are encouraging for this new body repair tool \u2014 and it sounds like a device straight out of science-fiction.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype device, developed by a team at Ohio State University, sits on the skin and uses an intense electrical field to deliver specific genes to the tissue underneath it. Those genes create new types of cells that can be used nearby or elsewhere in the body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-nanochip-devices-could-heal-organs-with-a-single-touch?&tb_cb=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine buzzing the skin over an internal wound with an electrical device and having it heal over just a few days \u2013 that\u2019s the promise of new nanochip technology that can reprogram cells to replace tissue or even whole organs. It\u2019s called Tissue Nanotransfection (TNT), and while it\u2019s only been tested on mice and pigs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91845","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}