{"id":142430,"date":"2022-07-18T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/high-flying-experiment-do-stem-cells-grow-better-in-space"},"modified":"2022-07-18T10:23:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T15:23:49","slug":"high-flying-experiment-do-stem-cells-grow-better-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/high-flying-experiment-do-stem-cells-grow-better-in-space","title":{"rendered":"High-Flying Experiment: Do Stem Cells Grow Better in Space?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/high-flying-experiment-do-stem-cells-grow-better-in-space3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are shooting stem cells into space, hoping to make discoveries that help people on Earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researcher Dhruv Sareen\u2019s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they\u2019ll grow better in zero gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are trying to find new ways to produce huge batches of a type of stem cell that can generate nearly any other type of cell in the body \u2014 and potentially be used to make treatments for many diseases. The cells arrived over the weekend at the International Space Station on a supply ship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I would be able to pay whatever it costs now\u201d to take a private ride to space, Sareen said. \u201cAt least a part of me in cells can go up!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are shooting stem cells into space, hoping to make discoveries that help people on Earth. Researcher Dhruv Sareen\u2019s own stem cells are now orbiting the Earth. The mission? To test whether they\u2019ll grow better in zero gravity. Scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles are trying to find new ways to produce huge [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142430","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=142430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}