{"id":33458,"date":"2017-01-14T00:02:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T08:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/synthetic-stem-cells-offer-benefits-of-natural-stem-cells-without-the-risks"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:52:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:52:31","slug":"synthetic-stem-cells-offer-benefits-of-natural-stem-cells-without-the-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/synthetic-stem-cells-offer-benefits-of-natural-stem-cells-without-the-risks","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic stem cells offer benefits of natural stem cells without the risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-stem-cells-offer-benefits-of-natural-stem-cells-without-the-risks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Synthetic Cardiac Stem Cell\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/synthetic-stem-cells-offer-benefits-of-natural-stem-cells-without-the-risks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"511\" height=\"295\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>A synthetic cardiac stem cell (left) mirroring a real cardiac stem cell (right), offering therapeutic benefits without the associated risks (credit: Alice Harvey\/NC State University)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>Scientists have created the first synthetic version of a cardiac stem cell, offering therapeutic benefits comparable to those from natural stem cells \u2014 but without the risks and limitations, according to researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/ncsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina State University<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill<\/a>, and First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University in China.<\/p>\n<p>The newly created synthetic stem cells cannot replicate. That means they could reduce some of the risks associated with natural stem-cell therapies \u2014 including tumor growth and immune rejection. The synthetic stem calls would also avoid the fragility of natural stem cells, which require careful storage and a multi-step process of typing and characterization before they can be used.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/synthetic-stem-cells-offer-benefits-of-natural-stem-cells-without-the-risks\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/synthetic-stem-cells-offer-benefit...-the-risks<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A synthetic cardiac stem cell (left) mirroring a real cardiac stem cell (right), offering therapeutic benefits without the associated risks (credit: Alice Harvey\/NC State University) Scientists have created the first synthetic version of a cardiac stem cell, offering therapeutic benefits comparable to those from natural stem cells \u2014 but without the risks and limitations, according [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33458","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=33458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65372,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33458\/revisions\/65372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}