{"id":25267,"date":"2016-05-02T12:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-heart-and-brain-cells-using-only-drugs-no-stem-cells-required"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:03:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:03:23","slug":"scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-heart-and-brain-cells-using-only-drugs-no-stem-cells-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-heart-and-brain-cells-using-only-drugs-no-stem-cells-required","title":{"rendered":"Scientists turn skin cells into heart and brain cells using only drugs \u2014 no stem cells required"},"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\/1yyHjhOpn20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Neurons Created From Chemically-Induced Neural Stem Cells\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-heart-and-brain-cells-using-only-drugs-no-stem-cells-required.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"365\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Neurons created from chemically induced neural stem cells. The cells were created from skin cells that were reprogrammed into neural stem cells using a cocktail of only nine chemicals. This is the first time cellular reprogramming has been accomplished without adding external genes to the cells. (credit: Mingliang Zhang, PhD, Gladstone Institutes)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have used chemicals to transform skin cells into heart cells and brain cells, instead of adding external genes \u2014 making this accomplishment a breakthrough, according to the scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The research lays the groundwork for one day being able to regenerate lost or damaged cells directly with pharmaceutical drugs \u2014 a more efficient and reliable method to reprogram cells and one that avoids medical concerns surrounding genetic engineering.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-heart-and-brain-cells-using-only-drugs-no-stem-cells-required\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-he...s-required<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neurons created from chemically induced neural stem cells. The cells were created from skin cells that were reprogrammed into neural stem cells using a cocktail of only nine chemicals. This is the first time cellular reprogramming has been accomplished without adding external genes to the cells. (credit: Mingliang Zhang, PhD, Gladstone Institutes) Scientists at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42176,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25267\/revisions\/42176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}