{"id":28948,"date":"2016-08-15T06:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/stroke-survivor-walks-again-after-doctors-inject-stem-cells-directly-into-brain"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:49","slug":"stroke-survivor-walks-again-after-doctors-inject-stem-cells-directly-into-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/stroke-survivor-walks-again-after-doctors-inject-stem-cells-directly-into-brain","title":{"rendered":"Stroke Survivor Walks Again After Doctors Inject Stem Cells Directly into Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stroke-survivor-walks-again-after-doctors-inject-stem-cells-directly-into-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A surgical procedure that involves drilling holes and injecting stem cells into stroke patients\u2019 brains seems to have contributed to a wheelchair-bound stroke patient regaining the ability to walk. Despite the major recovery exhibited by patients, further study must be made to investigate the true impact.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Stanford University were \u201cstunned\u201d at the positive results they obtained after injecting stem cells directly into stroke patients\u2019 brains. The discovery has created a talking point in the neuroscience community, causing researchers to re-visit and re-evaluate the notion that brain damage is permanent and irreversible.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>Surgical Procedure<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/stroke-survivor-walks-again-after-doctors-inject-stem-cells-directly-into-brain\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/stroke-survivor-walks-again-after-doctor...nto-brain\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surgical procedure that involves drilling holes and injecting stem cells into stroke patients\u2019 brains seems to have contributed to a wheelchair-bound stroke patient regaining the ability to walk. Despite the major recovery exhibited by patients, further study must be made to investigate the true impact. Researchers from Stanford University were \u201cstunned\u201d at the positive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28948","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\/28948","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=28948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66573,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28948\/revisions\/66573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}