{"id":33408,"date":"2017-01-12T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T18:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-stem-cell-treatment-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:03:55","slug":"new-stem-cell-treatment-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/new-stem-cell-treatment-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind","title":{"rendered":"New Stem Cell Treatment Can Restore Sight to the Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-stem-cell-treatment-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief <\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-bottom:0px;\">\n<li>Researchers were able to prevent immune system rejection of stem cells, blocking the usual immune responses that trigger rejection of the stem cells by the recipient\u2019s body.<\/li>\n<li>Using this technique, they were able to restore vision in mice as far out as nine months following the injection of these cells.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-stem-cell-treatment-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/new-stem-cell-treatment-can-restore-sight-to-the-blind\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief Researchers were able to prevent immune system rejection of stem cells, blocking the usual immune responses that trigger rejection of the stem cells by the recipient\u2019s body. Using this technique, they were able to restore vision in mice as far out as nine months following the injection of these cells.<\/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-33408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408","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=33408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49345,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408\/revisions\/49345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}