{"id":139326,"date":"2022-05-14T10:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-have-revived-a-glimmer-of-activity-in-human-eyes-after-death"},"modified":"2022-05-14T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T15:04:15","slug":"scientists-have-revived-a-glimmer-of-activity-in-human-eyes-after-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/scientists-have-revived-a-glimmer-of-activity-in-human-eyes-after-death","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Revived a Glimmer of Activity in Human Eyes After Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-revived-a-glimmer-of-activity-in-human-eyes-after-death2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have momentarily restored a faint twinkle of life to dying cells in the human eye.<\/p>\n<p>In order to better understand the way nerve cells succumb to a lack of oxygen, a team of US researchers measured activity in mouse and human retinal cells soon after their death.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, with a few tweaks to the tissue\u2019s environment, they were able to revive the cells\u2019 ability to communicate hours later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have momentarily restored a faint twinkle of life to dying cells in the human eye. In order to better understand the way nerve cells succumb to a lack of oxygen, a team of US researchers measured activity in mouse and human retinal cells soon after their death. Amazingly, with a few tweaks to the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139326","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}