{"id":77141,"date":"2018-03-23T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-24T00:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/genetic-switch-activates-transformation-of-stem-cells-into-heart-muscle-cells"},"modified":"2018-03-23T17:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T00:23:51","slug":"genetic-switch-activates-transformation-of-stem-cells-into-heart-muscle-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/genetic-switch-activates-transformation-of-stem-cells-into-heart-muscle-cells","title":{"rendered":"Genetic switch activates transformation of stem cells into heart muscle cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-switch-activates-transformation-of-stem-cells-into-heart-muscle-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery of a genetic switch that triggers stem cells to turn into heart cells is a major step in finding treatment for damaged hearts.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from A*STAR and their colleagues in India have been investigating the molecular and genetic processes by which human embryonic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/stem+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">stem cells<\/a> differentiate into the body\u2019s many types of cells\u2014in particular, cardiomyocytes, or <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/heart+muscle+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heart muscle cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effort is underway globally to find ways to differentiate these stem cells into beating functional heart muscle cells so that they can be used for cell-based therapies to treat structural abnormalities,\u201d says Prabha Sampath, from the A*STAR Institute of Medical Biology.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-03-genetic-stem-cells-heart-muscle.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;03-genetic-stem-cells-heart-muscle.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery of a genetic switch that triggers stem cells to turn into heart cells is a major step in finding treatment for damaged hearts. Researchers from A*STAR and their colleagues in India have been investigating the molecular and genetic processes by which human embryonic stem cells differentiate into the body\u2019s many types of cells\u2014in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}