{"id":57425,"date":"2017-05-17T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T19:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-are-close-to-creating-blood-using-a-patients-own-skin"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:01:20","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:01:20","slug":"scientists-are-close-to-creating-blood-using-a-patients-own-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/scientists-are-close-to-creating-blood-using-a-patients-own-skin","title":{"rendered":"Scientists are close\u2018 to creating blood using a patient\u2019s own SKIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-are-close-to-creating-blood-using-a-patients-own-skin.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>End of donations? Scientists are \u2018tantalisingly close\u2019 to creating human blood using a patient\u2019s own SKIN\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Ground-breaking research could pave the way for blood cells to be generated from a patient\u2019s own skin, spelling the end for blood donations.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have for the first time used embryonic stem cells \u2014 capable of creating every kind of tissue in the body to manufacture a broad range of human blood cells.<\/p>\n<p>Using mice as living cell factories, they produced blood stem cells able to produce four blood cell types.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4515400\/Scientists-close-creating-blood-cells-patient-s-skin.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4515400\/Scien...-skin.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of donations? Scientists are \u2018tantalisingly close\u2019 to creating human blood using a patient\u2019s own SKIN\u2026 Ground-breaking research could pave the way for blood cells to be generated from a patient\u2019s own skin, spelling the end for blood donations. Scientists have for the first time used embryonic stem cells \u2014 capable of creating every kind [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57425","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57512,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57425\/revisions\/57512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}