{"id":240754,"date":"2026-07-14T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/can-we-re-grow-you"},"modified":"2026-07-14T00:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T05:05:11","slug":"can-we-re-grow-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/can-we-re-grow-you","title":{"rendered":"Can We Re-grow You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xsAPHr6W8U0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For all of medical history, we\u2019ve tried to persuade sick cells to behave better. What if instead we just swapped them out? Can we insert new brain cells grown from your own skin cells? And what does any of this have to do with sending one\u2019s own cells into space, or rescuing animals on the very brink of extinction? Today Eagleman talks with stem cell biologist Jeanne Loring about the exciting next horizons.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for new episodes every week. \ud83d\udece<\/p>\n<p>INNER COSMOS PODCAST: Stanford neuroscientist David Eagleman tackles wild questions that illuminate new facets of our lives.<br \/> \u2764\ufe0f iHeartRadio: ihr.fm\/3TxDAqb.<br \/> \ud83c\udf4e Apple podcasts: apple.co\/3LTxTkH<br \/> \ud83d\udce2 Amazon Music: amzn.to\/3ZxGM6R<br \/> \ud83d\udfe2 Spotify: spoti.fi\/3lOaXZl.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/X.com\/davideagleman\">X.com\/davideagleman<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/davideagleman\">instagram.com\/davideagleman<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fb.com\/david.m.eagleman\">fb.com\/david.m.eagleman<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/davideagleman\">linkedin.com\/in\/davideagleman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#Eagleman #InnerCosmos #Science #Neuroscience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of medical history, we\u2019ve tried to persuade sick cells to behave better. What if instead we just swapped them out? Can we insert new brain cells grown from your own skin cells? And what does any of this have to do with sending one\u2019s own cells into space, or rescuing animals on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-existential-risks","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240754","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}