{"id":97485,"date":"2019-10-16T05:42:50","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-us-military-wants-super-soldiers-to-control-drones-with-their-minds"},"modified":"2019-10-16T05:42:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T12:42:50","slug":"the-us-military-wants-super-soldiers-to-control-drones-with-their-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-us-military-wants-super-soldiers-to-control-drones-with-their-minds","title":{"rendered":"The US military wants super-soldiers to control drones with their minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-us-military-wants-super-soldiers-to-control-drones-with-their-minds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I n August, three graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University were crammed together in a small, windowless basement lab, using a jury-rigged 3D printer frame to zap a slice of mouse brain with electricity.<\/p>\n<p>The brain fragment, cut from the hippocampus, looked like a piece of thinly sliced garlic. It rested on a platform near the center of the contraption. A narrow tube bathed the slice in a solution of salt, glucose, and amino acids. This kept it alive, after a fashion: neurons in the slice continued to fire, allowing the experimenters to gather data. An array of electrodes beneath the slice delivered the electric zaps, while a syringe-like metal probe measured how the neurons reacted. Bright LED lamps illuminated the dish. The setup, to use the lab members\u2019 lingo, was kind of hacky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I n August, three graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University were crammed together in a small, windowless basement lab, using a jury-rigged 3D printer frame to zap a slice of mouse brain with electricity. The brain fragment, cut from the hippocampus, looked like a piece of thinly sliced garlic. It rested on a platform near [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1488,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-drones","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97485","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}