{"id":30945,"date":"2016-10-11T10:47:46","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-just-used-stem-cells-from-one-monkey-to-heal-the-hearts-of-five-others"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:10:15","slug":"scientists-just-used-stem-cells-from-one-monkey-to-heal-the-hearts-of-five-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/scientists-just-used-stem-cells-from-one-monkey-to-heal-the-hearts-of-five-others","title":{"rendered":"Scientists just used stem cells from one monkey to heal the hearts of five others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-just-used-stem-cells-from-one-monkey-to-heal-the-hearts-of-five-others.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Japan have used cardiac muscle cells derived from the stem cells of a macaque to mend the damaged hearts of five other monkeys.<\/p>\n<p>The technique shows that using donor stem cells might one day be a viable way to regenerate the organs of human heart attack patients \u2013 an approach that could dramatically reduce the time and expense of developing individualised stem cell treatments.<\/p>\n<p>While using stem cell therapy to treat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-grown-a-first-of-its-kind-functional-heart-muscle-from-stem-cells\">conditions like heart problems<\/a> isn\u2019t new, the technique usually involves cultivating stem cells taken from the patient themselves \u2013 which can be very expensive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-used-stem-cells-from-one-monkey-to-heal-the-hearts-of-five-others\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-just-used-stem-cells-...ive-others<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists in Japan have used cardiac muscle cells derived from the stem cells of a macaque to mend the damaged hearts of five other monkeys. The technique shows that using donor stem cells might one day be a viable way to regenerate the organs of human heart attack patients \u2013 an approach that could dramatically [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66037,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945\/revisions\/66037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}