{"id":75120,"date":"2018-01-11T09:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T17:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/scientists-create-functioning-human-muscle-using-skin-cells"},"modified":"2018-01-16T17:04:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T01:04:05","slug":"scientists-create-functioning-human-muscle-using-skin-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/scientists-create-functioning-human-muscle-using-skin-cells","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Functioning Human Muscle Using Skin Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-functioning-human-muscle-using-skin-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Duke University have managed to create functional human muscle tissue using skin cells as the starting point[1]. This research builds on their <a href=\"https:\/\/elifesciences.org\/articles\/04885v1\">previous<\/a> work from 2015, when they grew the first functioning muscle tissue using cells obtained from muscle biopsies[2].<\/p>\n<p>Being able to create muscle cells using non-muscle tissue opens the door for scientists to grow muscle cells in bulk, provides an easier path to genome editing and gene therapies, offers a supply for basic research studies, and could help create personalized models for rare muscle diseases, leading to better patient outcomes.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/creating-human-muscle\/\">https:\/\/www.leafscience.org\/creating-human-muscle\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Duke University have managed to create functional human muscle tissue using skin cells as the starting point[1]. This research builds on their previous work from 2015, when they grew the first functioning muscle tissue using cells obtained from muscle biopsies[2]. Being able to create muscle cells using non-muscle tissue opens the door for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75120","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75160,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75120\/revisions\/75160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}