{"id":31022,"date":"2016-10-14T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T18:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/houston-establishes-itself-as-a-pioneer-in-regenerative-medicine"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:29","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:29","slug":"houston-establishes-itself-as-a-pioneer-in-regenerative-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/houston-establishes-itself-as-a-pioneer-in-regenerative-medicine","title":{"rendered":"Houston establishes itself as a pioneer in regenerative medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/houston-establishes-itself-as-a-pioneer-in-regenerative-medicine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/search\/?action=search&channel=local%2Fhistory%2Fmedical-science&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Inside+Doris+Taylor%22\">Inside Doris Taylor<\/a>\u2019s lab at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/search\/?action=search&channel=local%2Fhistory%2Fmedical-science&inlineLink=1&searchindex=gsa&query=%22Texas+Heart+Institute%22\">Texas Heart Institute<\/a> are ethereal white pig hearts, stripped of their cells and now a blank slate of an organ.<\/p>\n<p>Removing cells from an organ is fairly simple for scientists like Taylor. Rebuilding the organ by injecting stem cells is the tricky part.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s exactly what Taylor hopes to do: grow a human heart by injecting human stem cells into a \u201cdecellularized\u201d organ.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/local\/history\/medical-science\/article\/Houston-establishes-itself-as-a-pioneer-in-9958838.php\">http:\/\/www.chron.com\/local\/history\/medical-science\/article\/H...958838.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Doris Taylor\u2019s lab at the Texas Heart Institute are ethereal white pig hearts, stripped of their cells and now a blank slate of an organ. Removing cells from an organ is fairly simple for scientists like Taylor. Rebuilding the organ by injecting stem cells is the tricky part. But that\u2019s exactly what Taylor hopes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66007,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31022\/revisions\/66007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}