{"id":203072,"date":"2025-01-04T11:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T17:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/building-a-backbone-scientists-recreate-the-bodys-gps-system-in-the-lab"},"modified":"2025-01-04T11:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T17:24:04","slug":"building-a-backbone-scientists-recreate-the-bodys-gps-system-in-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/building-a-backbone-scientists-recreate-the-bodys-gps-system-in-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"Building a backbone: scientists recreate the body\u2019s \u2018GPS system\u2019 in the lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-a-backbone-scientists-recreate-the-bodys-gps-system-in-the-lab2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have generated human stem cell models1 which, for the first time, contain notochord \u2013 a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build the spine and nervous system (the trunk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have generated human stem cell models1 which, for the first time, contain notochord \u2013 a tissue in the developing embryo that acts like a navigation system, directing cells where to build the spine and nervous system (the trunk).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203072","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}