{"id":77889,"date":"2018-04-17T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/nanoparticles-grow-bone-cartilage-tissue-without-harmful-side-effects"},"modified":"2018-04-17T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T18:22:54","slug":"nanoparticles-grow-bone-cartilage-tissue-without-harmful-side-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/nanoparticles-grow-bone-cartilage-tissue-without-harmful-side-effects","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles Grow Bone, Cartilage Tissue Without Harmful Side Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-grow-bone-cartilage-tissue-without-harmful-side-effects.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human stem cells\u2014the biological jack of all trades\u2014have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/dentists-find-abundance-of-stem-cells-in-wisdom-teeth-1718904\/\" rel=\"noopener\">revolutionized modern medicine<\/a>, with their ability to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/stem-cells-may-functionally-cure-type-1-diabetes-1711093\/\" rel=\"noopener\">transform into specialized cell types<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the current approach, which requires specialized instructive protein molecules known as growth factors, comes with risks, including the potential development of unwanted tissue, i.e., a tumor.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Texas A&amp;M University, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/tees.tamu.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/13\/flaxseed-like-particles-can-now-grow-bone-cartilage-tissues-for-humans\" rel=\"noopener\">have discovered a gentler approach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/nanoparticles-grow-bone-cartilage-tissue-without-harmful-side-effects-1737169\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/science\/nanoparticles-grow-bone-cartila...s-1737169\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human stem cells\u2014the biological jack of all trades\u2014have revolutionized modern medicine, with their ability to transform into specialized cell types. But the current approach, which requires specialized instructive protein molecules known as growth factors, comes with risks, including the potential development of unwanted tissue, i.e., a tumor. Researchers at Texas A&amp;M University, however, have discovered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77889","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=77889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}