{"id":208666,"date":"2025-03-14T04:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/mits-new-skin-to-neuron-method-boosts-cell-production-by-1100"},"modified":"2025-03-14T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T09:17:00","slug":"mits-new-skin-to-neuron-method-boosts-cell-production-by-1100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/mits-new-skin-to-neuron-method-boosts-cell-production-by-1100","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s new skin-to-neuron method boosts cell production by 1,100%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mits-new-skin-to-neuron-method-boosts-cell-production-by-1100.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It could be revolutionary in treating diseases associated with spinal cord injuries.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at MIT have now devised a simplified process that bypasses the stem cell stage, converting a skin cell directly into a neuron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be revolutionary in treating diseases associated with spinal cord injuries. Researchers at MIT have now devised a simplified process that bypasses the stem cell stage, converting a skin cell directly into a neuron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208666","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=208666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}