{"id":31764,"date":"2016-11-07T15:57:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T23:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-watch-stem-cells-regrow-brain-tissue"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:04:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:04:41","slug":"scientists-watch-stem-cells-regrow-brain-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-watch-stem-cells-regrow-brain-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Watch Stem Cells Regrow Brain Tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-watch-stem-cells-regrow-brain-tissue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Transplanted embryonic neurons can properly connect into the developed visual cortex of adult mice and improve the animals\u2019 sensitivities to visual cues over time, scientists reported today (October 26) in <a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nature20113\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nature<\/em><\/a>. By demonstrating that added neurons can become fully functional in circuits that normally do not rewire in adulthood, the team\u2019s results suggest that the brain may be more plastic than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/2016\/10\/28\/scientists_watch_stem_cells_regrow_brain_tissue_273088.html\">http:\/\/www.realclearscience.com\/2016\/10\/28\/scientists_watch_...73088.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transplanted embryonic neurons can properly connect into the developed visual cortex of adult mice and improve the animals\u2019 sensitivities to visual cues over time, scientists reported today (October 26) in Nature. By demonstrating that added neurons can become fully functional in circuits that normally do not rewire in adulthood, the team\u2019s results suggest that 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":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31764","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\/31764","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=31764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65821,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31764\/revisions\/65821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}