{"id":236826,"date":"2026-05-09T02:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/parkinsons-patient-moves-freely-again-after-world-first-imp"},"modified":"2026-05-09T02:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:04:16","slug":"parkinsons-patient-moves-freely-again-after-world-first-imp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/parkinsons-patient-moves-freely-again-after-world-first-imp","title":{"rendered":"Parkinson\u2019s Patient Moves Freely Again After World-First Imp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/parkinsons-patient-moves-freely-again-after-world-first-imp.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Parkinson\u2019s patient Thomas Matsson was the first in the world to receive 7 million lab-grown brain cells in 2023. Today, he can smell and play sports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have successfully implanted 7 million lab-grown brain cells into a patient to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Swedish resident Thomas Matsson was the first in the world to test the method about a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parkinson\u2019s patient Thomas Matsson was the first in the world to receive 7 million lab-grown brain cells in 2023. Today, he can smell and play sports. Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have successfully implanted 7 million lab-grown brain cells into a patient to treat Parkinson\u2019s disease. Swedish resident Thomas Matsson was the first in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236826","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\/236826","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=236826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}