{"id":202042,"date":"2024-12-20T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T01:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-steer-the-development-of-stem-cells-to-regenerate-and-repair-organs"},"modified":"2024-12-20T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T01:25:27","slug":"scientists-steer-the-development-of-stem-cells-to-regenerate-and-repair-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-steer-the-development-of-stem-cells-to-regenerate-and-repair-organs","title":{"rendered":"Scientists steer the development of stem cells to regenerate and repair organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-steer-the-development-of-stem-cells-to-regenerate-and-repair-organs3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators from Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have identified a new way to deliver instructions that tell stem cells to grow into specific bodily structures, a critical step in eventually regenerating and repairing tissues and organs.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists engineered cells that form structures called \u201csynthetic organizers.\u201d These organizers provided instructions to the stem cells through <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biochemical+signals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biochemical signals<\/a> called morphogens, which stimulated and enabled the stem cells to grow into specific complex tissues and organ-like assemblies.<\/p>\n<p>The research was conducted with mouse <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/embryonic+stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">embryonic stem cells<\/a>, and the findings were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/abstract\/S0092-8674(24)01323-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Cell<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators from Cedars-Sinai and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have identified a new way to deliver instructions that tell stem cells to grow into specific bodily structures, a critical step in eventually regenerating and repairing tissues and organs. The scientists engineered cells that form structures called \u201csynthetic organizers.\u201d These organizers provided instructions to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202042","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}