{"id":19417,"date":"2015-11-18T22:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T06:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/fresh-voices-researchers-grow-new-vocal-cords-from-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:19:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:19:22","slug":"fresh-voices-researchers-grow-new-vocal-cords-from-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/fresh-voices-researchers-grow-new-vocal-cords-from-cells","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Voices: Researchers Grow New Vocal Cords From Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fresh-voices-researchers-grow-new-vocal-cords-from-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As many as 20 million Americans have impaired voices because of damage to the vocal cords \u2014 more precisely, vocal folds \u2014 the researchers report in the journal Science Translational Medicine. There\u2019s no good solution for them now.<\/p>\n<p>Organs for transplant are always in short supply and no one\u2019s really tried transplanting vocal folds into a living patient, the team said. They decided to try growing new ones.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not an easy thing to do. The tissue that makes up vocal folds is extremely specialized. Not just any old tissue will do the job.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-care\/fresh-voices-researchers-grow-new-vocal-cords-cells-n465671\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 20 million Americans have impaired voices because of damage to the vocal cords \u2014 more precisely, vocal folds \u2014 the researchers report in the journal Science Translational Medicine. There\u2019s no good solution for them now. Organs for transplant are always in short supply and no one\u2019s really tried transplanting vocal folds into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69176,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/69176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}