{"id":223602,"date":"2025-10-18T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/cambridge-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T05:07:04","slug":"cambridge-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/cambridge-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge lab-grown human embryo model produces blood cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cambridge-lab-grown-human-embryo-model-produces-blood-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof Azim Surani, senior author of the paper, said: \u201cAlthough it is still in the early stages, the ability to produce human blood cells in the lab marks a significant step towards future regenerative therapies \u2014 which use a patient\u2019s own cells to repair and regenerate damaged tissues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human blood stem cells, also known as hematopoietic stem cells, are immature cells that can develop into any type of blood cell.<\/p>\n<p>These include red blood cells that carry oxygen and various types of white blood cells crucial to the immune system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Azim Surani, senior author of the paper, said: \u201cAlthough it is still in the early stages, the ability to produce human blood cells in the lab marks a significant step towards future regenerative therapies \u2014 which use a patient\u2019s own cells to repair and regenerate damaged tissues.\u201d Human blood stem cells, also known as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223602","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=223602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}