{"id":95471,"date":"2019-08-28T15:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T22:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/worm-robot-could-wiggle-its-way-through-arteries-in-the-brain"},"modified":"2019-08-28T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T22:42:40","slug":"worm-robot-could-wiggle-its-way-through-arteries-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/worm-robot-could-wiggle-its-way-through-arteries-in-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Worm robot could wiggle its way through arteries in the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worm-robot-could-wiggle-its-way-through-arteries-in-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just imagine what types of treatments, human enhancements, and other disorders could be solved with this technique. No more invasive GBM surgeries, Dystonia is finally treated and no longer a problem as well as other diseases and disorders that are located in areas like the basal ganglia area of the brain.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>By Chris Stokel-Walker<\/p>\n<p>A tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2213626-robotic-shorts-could-help-you-run-and-walk-more-efficiently\/\">robotic worm<\/a> can wiggle its way through a model brain. It could eventually be used to make brain surgeries less invasive.<\/p>\n<p>Yoonho Kim and his colleague Xuanhe Zhao at Massachusetts Institute of Technology created the robot out of a polymer with small magnetic particles embedded throughout, meaning it can be directed using a magnet. It is coated in a self-lubricating material and is less 0.6 millimetres in diameter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just imagine what types of treatments, human enhancements, and other disorders could be solved with this technique. No more invasive GBM surgeries, Dystonia is finally treated and no longer a problem as well as other diseases and disorders that are located in areas like the basal ganglia area of the brain. By Chris Stokel-Walker A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95471","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}