{"id":212474,"date":"2025-04-26T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T19:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-create-first-reprogrammed-brain-cells-that-could-cure-alzheimers"},"modified":"2025-04-26T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T19:07:23","slug":"scientists-create-first-reprogrammed-brain-cells-that-could-cure-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/scientists-create-first-reprogrammed-brain-cells-that-could-cure-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create first reprogrammed brain cells that could cure Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-first-reprogrammed-brain-cells-that-could-cure-alzheimers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world-first, scientists have figured out how to reprogram cells to fight \u2014 and potentially reverse \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-14114651\/Scientists-grow-human-brains-space-time-help-cure-worlds-killer-disease.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> brain diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> California<\/a>, Irvine created lab-grown immune cells that can track down toxic brain buildup and clear it away, restoring memory and brain function in mice.<\/p>\n<p>They did this by turning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-14583499\/dire-wolf-species-deextinction-animals-revived.html\" rel=\"nofollow\"> stem cells \u2014 which can become any cell in the body \u2014<\/a> into brain immune cells called microglia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world-first, scientists have figured out how to reprogram cells to fight \u2014 and potentially reverse \u2014 brain diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine created lab-grown immune cells that can track down toxic brain buildup and clear it away, restoring memory and brain function in mice. They did this by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212474","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\/212474","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\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}