{"id":238279,"date":"2026-06-03T18:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/blocking-apoptosis-promotes-survival-and-alters-developmental-dynamics-of-human-retinal-ganglion-cells-in-retinal-organoids"},"modified":"2026-06-03T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T23:19:39","slug":"blocking-apoptosis-promotes-survival-and-alters-developmental-dynamics-of-human-retinal-ganglion-cells-in-retinal-organoids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/blocking-apoptosis-promotes-survival-and-alters-developmental-dynamics-of-human-retinal-ganglion-cells-in-retinal-organoids","title":{"rendered":"Blocking apoptosis promotes survival and alters developmental dynamics of human retinal ganglion cells in retinal organoids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/blocking-apoptosis-promotes-survival-and-alters-developmental-dynamics-of-human-retinal-ganglion-cells-in-retinal-organoids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zhang et al. found that two waves of apoptosis occur in developing human retinas and retinal organoids, affecting RPCs and RGCs, respectively. Retinal organoids undergo an additional wave of necrosis in the core, further eliminating RGCs. Blocking apoptosis in organoids promotes RGC long-term survival and delays their neurogenesis and maturation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhang et al. found that two waves of apoptosis occur in developing human retinas and retinal organoids, affecting RPCs and RGCs, respectively. Retinal organoids undergo an additional wave of necrosis in the core, further eliminating RGCs. Blocking apoptosis in organoids promotes RGC long-term survival and delays their neurogenesis and maturation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238279","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=238279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}