{"id":21224,"date":"2016-01-26T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T23:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/new-algorithm-points-the-way-towards-regrowing-limbs-and-organs"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:14:18","slug":"new-algorithm-points-the-way-towards-regrowing-limbs-and-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/new-algorithm-points-the-way-towards-regrowing-limbs-and-organs","title":{"rendered":"New algorithm points the way towards regrowing limbs and organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-algorithm-points-the-way-towards-regrowing-limbs-and-organs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has developed a new algorithm that could one day help scientists reprogram cells to plug any kind of gap in the human body. The computer code model, called Mogrify, is designed to make the process of creating pluripotent stem cells much quicker and more straightforward than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorestemcells.co.uk\/pluripotentstemcells.html\">pluripotent stem cell<\/a> is one that has the potential to become any type of specialised cell in the body: eye tissue, or a neural cell, or cells to build a heart. In theory, that would open up the potential for doctors to regrow limbs, make organs to order, and patch up the human body in all kinds of ways that aren\u2019t currently possible.<\/p>\n<p>It was Japanese researcher Shinya Yamanaka who first reprogrammed cells in this way back in 2007 \u2014 it later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/2012\/\">earned him a Nobel Prize<\/a> \u2014 but Yamanaka\u2019s work involved a lot of labourious trial and error, and the process he followed is not an easy one to reproduce. Mogrify aims to compute the required set of factors to change cells instead, and it\u2019s passed its early tests with flying colours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-algorithm-points-the-way-towards-regrowing-limbs-and-organs\/page-2\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has developed a new algorithm that could one day help scientists reprogram cells to plug any kind of gap in the human body. The computer code model, called Mogrify, is designed to make the process of creating pluripotent stem cells much quicker and more straightforward than ever before. A pluripotent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224","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=21224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68713,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21224\/revisions\/68713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}