{"id":148626,"date":"2022-10-21T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/will-people-be-able-to-regrow-organs"},"modified":"2022-10-21T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T17:22:19","slug":"will-people-be-able-to-regrow-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/will-people-be-able-to-regrow-organs","title":{"rendered":"Will People Be Able To Regrow Organs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-people-be-able-to-regrow-organs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will humans be able to grow replacement organs? LyGenesis aims to prove it can be done.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LyGenesis is a biomedical company hoping to deliver a technology that will allow patients to grow functioning organs. If successful the company\u2019s cell therapies will disrupt organ transplantation allowing patients to grow their own. Instead of surgery, a person will do what some amphibians and reptiles do today when they lose a limb or tail.<\/p>\n<p>The company is using the inherent nature of lymph nodes and their evolutionary function, turning them into rapid bioreactors. Our lymph nodes already do this when they produce infection-fighting T-cells. But LyGenesis\u2019 therapies turn donated organ cells into biofactories that can become a source for producing viable organs in multiple patients. The only minimally invasive procedure involved is the engrafting of the cells into a patient\u2019s lymph nodes to begin the process of organ development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will humans be able to grow replacement organs? LyGenesis aims to prove it can be done. LyGenesis is a biomedical company hoping to deliver a technology that will allow patients to grow functioning organs. If successful the company\u2019s cell therapies will disrupt organ transplantation allowing patients to grow their own. Instead of surgery, a person [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":678,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148626","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\/678"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}