{"id":57428,"date":"2017-05-17T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T22:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/researchers-are-using-stem-cell-tech-to-end-neurological-disorders"},"modified":"2017-05-23T15:01:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T22:01:19","slug":"researchers-are-using-stem-cell-tech-to-end-neurological-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/researchers-are-using-stem-cell-tech-to-end-neurological-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Are Using Stem Cell Tech to End Neurological Disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-are-using-stem-cell-tech-to-end-neurological-disorders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Researchers have constructed a laboratory model for a unique neurological disorder by transforming patients\u2019 own cells using stem cell technology. <\/li>\n<li>This innovation could also benefit the research of other neurological disorders that may also have roots in a dysfunctional blood-brain barrier, like Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Huntington\u2019s disease. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The human body is a melding of different systems designed to function well together. In some cases, however, a mechanism that protects the body can also cause it harm, like with the specialized shield of endothelial cells \u2014 called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainfacts.org\/brain-basics\/neuroanatomy\/articles\/2014\/blood-brain-barrier\">the blood-brain barrier<\/a> \u2014 that keeps toxins in the blood from entering the brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-are-using-stem-cell-tech-to-end-neurological-disorders\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/researchers-are-using-stem-cell-tech-to...disorders\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have constructed a laboratory model for a unique neurological disorder by transforming patients\u2019 own cells using stem cell technology. This innovation could also benefit the research of other neurological disorders that may also have roots in a dysfunctional blood-brain barrier, like Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Huntington\u2019s disease. The human body is a melding of different [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57428","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=57428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57509,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57428\/revisions\/57509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}