{"id":72380,"date":"2017-09-07T10:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/researchers-uncover-new-way-of-growing-stem-cells"},"modified":"2017-09-07T10:22:30","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:22:30","slug":"researchers-uncover-new-way-of-growing-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/researchers-uncover-new-way-of-growing-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Researchers uncover new way of growing stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-new-way-of-growing-stem-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Research led by The University of Western Australia has discovered a new, simple and less expensive way of growing human stem cells.<\/p>\n<p>Using hydrogel, a gel with a gradient that can be used to mimic the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/stiffness\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stiffness<\/a> of human body tissues, the researchers were able to generate positive outcomes for the growth of stem cells.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Yu Suk Choi from UWA\u2019s School of Human Sciences at The University of Western Australia led the international collaboration which also included researchers from the University of California, San Diego (USA) and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research (Germany).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-05-uncover-stem-cells.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;05-uncover-stem-cells.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research led by The University of Western Australia has discovered a new, simple and less expensive way of growing human stem cells. Using hydrogel, a gel with a gradient that can be used to mimic the stiffness of human body tissues, the researchers were able to generate positive outcomes for the growth of stem cells. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72380","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}