{"id":105635,"date":"2020-04-18T06:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/repairing-damaged-brains"},"modified":"2020-04-18T06:44:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T13:44:49","slug":"repairing-damaged-brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/repairing-damaged-brains","title":{"rendered":"Repairing damaged brains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/repairing-damaged-brains.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brain cells, wrote the Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, \u201cmay die\u201d and cannot \u201cbe regenerated.\u201d Cajal then threw down the gauntlet, asserting that it was the job of the \u201cscience of the future to change, if possible, this harsh decree.\u201d Jack Price\u2019s engaging book <em><i>The Future of Brain Repair<\/i> <\/em>details past, present, and future attempts to address Cajal\u2019s formidable challenge. In so doing, it provides a vibrant and compelling guide to the important and rapidly evolving fields of stem cell\u2013based therapies and brain repair, which together, he believes, are poised to deliver unprecedented changes to the management of brain diseases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse\" rel=\"license\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse\">http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is an article distributed under the terms of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/about\/science-licenses-journal-article-reuse\" rel=\"license\">Science Journals Default License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brain cells, wrote the Spanish neuroanatomist Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal in the late 19th century, \u201cmay die\u201d and cannot \u201cbe regenerated.\u201d Cajal then threw down the gauntlet, asserting that it was the job of the \u201cscience of the future to change, if possible, this harsh decree.\u201d Jack Price\u2019s engaging book The Future of Brain Repair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105635","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\/105635","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=105635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}