{"id":229696,"date":"2026-01-24T00:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/pain-sponge-derived-from-stem-cells-could-soak-up-pain-signals-before-they-reach-the-brain"},"modified":"2026-01-24T00:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:09:51","slug":"pain-sponge-derived-from-stem-cells-could-soak-up-pain-signals-before-they-reach-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/pain-sponge-derived-from-stem-cells-could-soak-up-pain-signals-before-they-reach-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pain sponge\u2019 derived from stem cells could soak up pain signals before they reach the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/pain-sponge-derived-from-stem-cells-could-soak-up-pain-signals-before-they-reach-the-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are developing a \u201csponge\u201d that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially offering an alternative to painkillers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are developing a \u201csponge\u201d that can soak up pain signals in the body before they reach the brain, potentially offering an alternative to painkillers.<\/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-229696","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\/229696","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=229696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}