{"id":195621,"date":"2024-09-03T17:22:51","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/blood-stem-cell-breakthrough-could-have-massive-impact-on-patients"},"modified":"2024-09-03T17:22:51","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:22:51","slug":"blood-stem-cell-breakthrough-could-have-massive-impact-on-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/blood-stem-cell-breakthrough-could-have-massive-impact-on-patients","title":{"rendered":"Blood stem cell breakthrough could have \u2018massive impact\u2019 on patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blood-stem-cell-breakthrough-could-have-massive-impact-on-patients.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have grown blood stem cells in the laboratory for the first time in a move that could potentially end the need for stem cell transplants.<\/p>\n<p>During a stem cell (or bone marrow) transplant, damaged blood cells are replaced with healthy ones and can be used to treat conditions such as leukaemia.<\/p>\n<p>However, finding a donor match can be difficult and some patients die before a donor is found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have grown blood stem cells in the laboratory for the first time in a move that could potentially end the need for stem cell transplants. During a stem cell (or bone marrow) transplant, damaged blood cells are replaced with healthy ones and can be used to treat conditions such as leukaemia. However, finding a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195621","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}