{"id":32947,"date":"2016-12-26T15:48:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T23:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/synthetic-stem-cells-promise-muscle-regeneration-without-cancer-risk"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:55:50","slug":"synthetic-stem-cells-promise-muscle-regeneration-without-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/synthetic-stem-cells-promise-muscle-regeneration-without-cancer-risk","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic stem cells promise muscle regeneration without cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-stem-cells-promise-muscle-regeneration-without-cancer-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists are hailing a pioneering stem cell technique that promises \u201coff-the-shelf\u201d treatment for people with damaged muscles without the existing risks.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have for the first time successfully implanted \u201csynthetic\u201d cardiac stem cells which successfully repaired muscle tissue that had been weakened by a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional stem cell therapy comes with a risk of cancer because scientists are unable to stop the cells replicating and forming tumours.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/12\/26\/synthetic-stem-cells-promise-muscle-regeneration-without-cancer\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/12\/26\/synthetic-stem...ut-cancer\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists are hailing a pioneering stem cell technique that promises \u201coff-the-shelf\u201d treatment for people with damaged muscles without the existing risks. Researchers have for the first time successfully implanted \u201csynthetic\u201d cardiac stem cells which successfully repaired muscle tissue that had been weakened by a heart attack. Traditional stem cell therapy comes with a risk of [\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-32947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947","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=32947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65503,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32947\/revisions\/65503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}