{"id":11590,"date":"2014-06-19T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11590"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:16","slug":"scientists-trigger-stem-cells-to-produce-new-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/scientists-trigger-stem-cells-to-produce-new-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Trigger Stem Cells to Produce New Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Posts by Cameron Scott\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/cscott\/\" rel=\"author\">Cameron Scott<\/a> \u2014 Singularity Hub<br \/>\n<br \/> It turns out that an apple a day \u2014 or at least an apple spinach salad \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/04\/05\/fruits-and-vegetables-do-more-to-reduce-cancer-and-extend-life-than-many-prescription-drugs\/\">does keep the doctor away<\/a>. But it\u2019s not true that when brain cells die we can\u2019t make more. When and how remain <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/neuron\/fulltext\/S0896-6273%2811%2900348-5\">active questions<\/a>, however, so there\u2019s no free pass to collectively disregard our mothers\u2019 safety tips just yet.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Duke University have <a href=\"http:\/\/today.duke.edu\/2014\/06\/kuoneurogen\">shed some light<\/a> on the subject with findings that suggest that down the line doctors may be able spur the brain to repair itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/06\/18\/scientists-trigger-stem-cells-to-produce-new-brain-cells\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Scott \u2014 Singularity Hub It turns out that an apple a day \u2014 or at least an apple spinach salad \u2014 does keep the doctor away. But it\u2019s not true that when brain cells die we can\u2019t make more. When and how remain active questions, however, so there\u2019s no free pass to collectively disregard [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47034,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11590\/revisions\/47034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}