{"id":101797,"date":"2020-02-02T22:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T06:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-have-found-a-single-cell-that-can-be-used-to-regenerate-a"},"modified":"2020-02-06T02:03:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:03:53","slug":"scientists-have-found-a-single-cell-that-can-be-used-to-regenerate-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-have-found-a-single-cell-that-can-be-used-to-regenerate-a","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have found a single cell that can be used to regenerate an entire animal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-found-a-single-cell-that-can-be-used-to-regenerate-a.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stem cells have been a source of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/health-news\/new-stem-cell-therapy-which-mimics-how-salamanders-grow-new-limbs-raises-hopes-of-new-regenerative-a6968931.html\" class=\"\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-8398951-https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/life-style\/health-and-families\/health-news\/new-stem-cell-therapy-which-mimics-how-salamanders-grow-new-limbs-raises-hopes-of-new-regenerative-a6968931.html\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">much excitement in the medical community<\/a> for years, as if they could be properly developed for use in humans doctors could theoretically use them to regrow missing body parts.<\/p>\n<p>While the techniques have seen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/breakthrough-with-stem-cells-could-end-need-for-transplants-8809955.html\" class=\"\" data-vars-item-name=\"BL-8398951-https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/breakthrough-with-stem-cells-could-end-need-for-transplants-8809955.html\" data-vars-event-id=\"c6\">some success in the lab<\/a>, the processes involved are complex and it will likely be some time before they become widely used in clinical practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 Stem cells have been a source of much excitement in the medical community for years, as if they could be properly developed for use in humans doctors could theoretically use them to regrow missing body parts. While the techniques have seen some success in the lab, the processes involved are complex and it [\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-101797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101797","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=101797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101953,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101797\/revisions\/101953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}