{"id":105114,"date":"2020-04-10T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-restore-mobility-and-touch-in-stroke-afflicted-rats"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-11T00:09:07","slug":"scientists-restore-mobility-and-touch-in-stroke-afflicted-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/scientists-restore-mobility-and-touch-in-stroke-afflicted-rats","title":{"rendered":"Scientists restore mobility and touch in stroke-afflicted rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/12\/13\/4831097444057041284\/1024x576_MP4_4831097444057041284.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>New hope for stroke patients as scientists find way to restore mobility and touch using human stem cells to recreate nerve connections in damaged rat brain\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists have found a way to restore mobility and touch in rats after a stroke using human stem cells to recreate nerve connections in damaged brains \u2014 offering patients a new hope.<\/p>\n<p>The study \u2014 conducted on rats \u2014 showed that the new cells could repair the damage caused by a stroke within six months of being transplanted into the brain.<\/p>\n<p>However, the researchers caution that there is much work to be done before the procedure can be considered suitable and safe to try in human patients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New hope for stroke patients as scientists find way to restore mobility and touch using human stem cells to recreate nerve connections in damaged rat brain\u2026 Scientists have found a way to restore mobility and touch in rats after a stroke using human stem cells to recreate nerve connections in damaged brains \u2014 offering patients [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105114","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\/105114","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}