{"id":75062,"date":"2018-01-09T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T20:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-muscle-cells-a-potential-boon-for-research"},"modified":"2018-01-14T11:02:44","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T19:02:44","slug":"scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-muscle-cells-a-potential-boon-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-muscle-cells-a-potential-boon-for-research","title":{"rendered":"Scientists turn skin cells into muscle cells, a potential boon for research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-muscle-cells-a-potential-boon-for-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2018 \u2014 In a potential advance for medical research, scientists say they\u2019ve created the first functioning human muscle from skin cells.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough could lead to better genetic or cell-based therapies, as well as furthering investigations into the causes and treatment of muscular disorders, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Duke_University\/\" title=\"Duke University\" class=\"\">Duke University<\/a> team said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prospect of studying rare diseases is especially exciting for us,\u201d Nenad Bursac, professor of biomedical engineering, said in a university news release.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2018\/01\/09\/Scientists-turn-skin-cells-into-muscle-cells-a-potential-boon-for-research\/1301515513522\/?utm_source=fp&utm_campaign=ls&utm_medium=4\">https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2018\/01\/09\/Scientists-turn-s...m_medium=4<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2018 \u2014 In a potential advance for medical research, scientists say they\u2019ve created the first functioning human muscle from skin cells. The breakthrough could lead to better genetic or cell-based therapies, as well as furthering investigations into the causes and treatment of muscular disorders, the Duke University team said. \u201cThe prospect of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75062","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75067,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75062\/revisions\/75067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}