{"id":18452,"date":"2015-10-15T09:47:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T16:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/first-primitive-kidneys-grown-from-stem-cells"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:28:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:28:04","slug":"first-primitive-kidneys-grown-from-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/first-primitive-kidneys-grown-from-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"First Primitive Kidneys Grown From Stem Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-primitive-kidneys-grown-from-stem-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have managed to grow a miniature brain, and there\u2019s a whole bunch of other so called \u2018organoids\u2019 we\u2019re currently learning to perfect. We can now add kidneys to the tick box.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>There have been a few mini-organ breakthroughs lately, and now we can grow simple kidneys in the lab too.<\/p>\n<p>Regenerative medicine has incredible promise and provides hope that one day virtually any injury could be corrected. Scientists have managed to grow a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/8\/20\/rise-of-the-organoids-miniature-human-brain-most-complete-to-date\">miniature brain<\/a>, and there\u2019s a whole bunch of other so called \u2018<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/the-boom-in-mini-stomachs-brains-breasts-kidneys-and-more-1.18064\">organoids<\/a>\u2019 we\u2019re currently learning to perfect. We can now add kidneys to the tick box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/12\/first-primitive-kidneys-grown-from-stem-cells.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have managed to grow a miniature brain, and there\u2019s a whole bunch of other so called \u2018organoids\u2019 we\u2019re currently learning to perfect. We can now add kidneys to the tick box. There have been a few mini-organ breakthroughs lately, and now we can grow simple kidneys in the lab too. Regenerative medicine has incredible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56702,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18452\/revisions\/56702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}