{"id":11889,"date":"2014-07-19T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T23:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11889"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:06:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:06:09","slug":"woman-grows-a-nose-on-her-spine-after-stem-cell-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/woman-grows-a-nose-on-her-spine-after-stem-cell-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Woman Grows A Nose On Her Spine After Stem Cell Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BySarah Fecht- Popular Science<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"decoded\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/woman-grows-a-nose-on-her-spine-after-stem-cell-experiment2.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/woman-grows-a-nose-on-her-spine-after-stem-cell-experiment2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Eight years ago, doctors took nasal tissue samples and grafted them onto the spines of 20 quadriplegics. The idea was that stem cells within the nasal tissue might turn into neurons that could help repair the damaged spinal cord, and <a href=\"http:\/\/nnr.sagepub.com\/content\/24\/1\/10\">the experiment<\/a> actually worked a few of the patients, who regained a little bit of sensation. But it didn\u2019t go well for one woman in particular, who not only didn\u2019t experience any abatement in her paralysis, but recently started feeling pain at the site of the implant. When doctors took a closer look, they realized she was growing the beginnings of a nose on her spine, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn25859-stem-cell-treatment-causes-nasal-growth-in-womans-back.html\">New Scientist<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/article\/science\/woman-grows-nose-her-spine-after-stem-cell-experiment?dom=PSC&amp;loc=recent&amp;lnk=3&amp;con=woman-grows-a-nose-on-her-spine-after-stem-cell-experiment\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BySarah Fecht- Popular Science Eight years ago, doctors took nasal tissue samples and grafted them onto the spines of 20 quadriplegics. The idea was that stem cells within the nasal tissue might turn into neurons that could help repair the damaged spinal cord, and the experiment actually worked a few of the patients, who regained [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889","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=11889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64937,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11889\/revisions\/64937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}