{"id":200009,"date":"2024-11-23T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/stem-cells-grown-in-space-turn-out-to-have-a-surprise-advantage"},"modified":"2024-11-23T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:25:45","slug":"stem-cells-grown-in-space-turn-out-to-have-a-surprise-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/stem-cells-grown-in-space-turn-out-to-have-a-surprise-advantage","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cells Grown in Space Turn Out to Have a Surprise Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stem-cells-grown-in-space-turn-out-to-have-a-surprise-advantage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\">Stem cells<\/a> are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell. Now scientists have discovered how their superpowers get a remarkable boost when they\u2019re grown in space.<\/p>\n<p>The microgravity environment increases some of the regenerative capacities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">stem cells<\/a> even further, researchers from the Mayo Clinic in Florida have found, based on experiments carried out on the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>As stem cells play such a crucial role in the body\u2019s repair process, with their ability to quickly replicate and differentiate, these findings could help in the study of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-key-to-creating-blood-stem-cells-may-lie-in-your-own-blood\">disease prevention and treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stem cells are special in the way they can keep on replicating, and turn themselves into many other types of cell. Now scientists have discovered how their superpowers get a remarkable boost when they\u2019re grown in space. The microgravity environment increases some of the regenerative capacities of stem cells even further, researchers from the Mayo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200009","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}