{"id":35128,"date":"2017-03-06T23:22:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T07:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/3-exciting-biotech-trends-to-watch-closely-in-2017"},"modified":"2017-04-24T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T01:47:27","slug":"3-exciting-biotech-trends-to-watch-closely-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/3-exciting-biotech-trends-to-watch-closely-in-2017","title":{"rendered":"3 Exciting Biotech Trends to Watch Closely in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3-exciting-biotech-trends-to-watch-closely-in-2017.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I start to look at the emerging trends of 2017 from the vantage of <a href=\"http:\/\/indiebio.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IndieBio<\/a>, where we see hundreds of biotech startup applications and technologies per year, a few key themes are already emerging. Even as political landscapes change, science and technology continue to push forward.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>1. Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Most of us have seen science fiction shows that show future doctors regrowing and replacing entire organs. That fiction is now becoming a reality with cell therapies from companies like Juno (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/603502\/two-infants-treated-with-universal-immune-cells-have-their-cancer-vanish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">curing two infants with leukemia of their previously treatment resistant cancers with engineered T-cells<\/a>), induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) pioneered by the Nobel prize winning scientist, Shinya Yamanaka that can become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/16\/science\/shinya-yamanaka-stem-cells.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">any cell in the body<\/a>, growing organoids (mini organs with some function of a fully grown organ like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/v541\/n7636\/full\/nature21021.html#affil-auth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stomach organoids grown by researchers in Ohio<\/a>), and entirely re-grown organs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/06\/3-exciting-biotech-trends-to-watch-closely-in-2017\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=aa83ad4b3a-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-aa83ad4b3a-58181461\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2017\/03\/06\/3-exciting-biotech-tre...a-58181461<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I start to look at the emerging trends of 2017 from the vantage of IndieBio, where we see hundreds of biotech startup applications and technologies per year, a few key themes are already emerging. Even as political landscapes change, science and technology continue to push forward. 1. Cell Therapies and Regenerative Medicine Most of [\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-35128","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\/35128","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=35128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48600,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35128\/revisions\/48600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}