{"id":100534,"date":"2020-01-05T15:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/israeli-treatment-could-delay-deadly-effects-of-als-new-study"},"modified":"2020-01-05T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T23:24:03","slug":"israeli-treatment-could-delay-deadly-effects-of-als-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/israeli-treatment-could-delay-deadly-effects-of-als-new-study","title":{"rendered":"Israeli treatment could delay deadly effects of ALS \u2013 new study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-treatment-could-delay-deadly-effects-of-als-new-study.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Specifically, AstroRx is a cell therapy product containing functional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HEALTH-SCIENCE\">healthy<\/a> astrocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells that aim to protect diseased motor neurons. The cells are injected in the patient through the spinal canal.<\/p>\n<p>The company initiated its first ALS clinical trials in March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Michel Revel, founder and CEO of the company and winner of both the EMET Prize and the Israel Prize, said that the clinical trial results \u201cprovide the confidence needed to move forward\u201d with cohorts B and C, which he said both \u201chold the potential for a prolonged response.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specifically, AstroRx is a cell therapy product containing functional healthy astrocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells that aim to protect diseased motor neurons. The cells are injected in the patient through the spinal canal. The company initiated its first ALS clinical trials in March 2018. Prof. Michel Revel, founder and CEO of the company [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534","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=100534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}