{"id":164186,"date":"2023-05-19T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-in-china-have-grown-deer-antlers-on-mice-using-stem-cells-u2b07ufe0f"},"modified":"2023-05-19T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T23:13:12","slug":"scientists-in-china-have-grown-deer-antlers-on-mice-using-stem-cells-u2b07ufe0f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/scientists-in-china-have-grown-deer-antlers-on-mice-using-stem-cells-u2b07ufe0f","title":{"rendered":"Scientists in China have grown deer antlers on mice using stem cells:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-in-china-have-grown-deer-antlers-on-mice-using-stem-cells-u2b07ufe0f2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They identified a new type of stem cell, which enables deer to regenerate their antlers year after year.<\/p>\n<p>When transplanted into mice, it took just 45 days for them to grow antler-like bumps containing cartilage and bone.<\/p>\n<p>This early research could potentially give us a better way to repair skeletal injuries \u2014 and maybe even help us to regrow our own limbs one day: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/deer-antlers-regeneration\">https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/science\/deer-antlers-regeneration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8: Credit: T. Qin et al. \/ Science Freethink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They identified a new type of stem cell, which enables deer to regenerate their antlers year after year. When transplanted into mice, it took just 45 days for them to grow antler-like bumps containing cartilage and bone. This early research could potentially give us a better way to repair skeletal injuries \u2014 and maybe even [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164186","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164228,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164186\/revisions\/164228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}