{"id":79613,"date":"2018-06-14T12:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/pioneering-stem-cell-trial-seeks-to-cure-babies-before-birth"},"modified":"2018-06-14T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:22:21","slug":"pioneering-stem-cell-trial-seeks-to-cure-babies-before-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/pioneering-stem-cell-trial-seeks-to-cure-babies-before-birth","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering Stem Cell Trial Seeks to Cure Babies Before Birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SZmPDEChlF0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even before she was born, Elianna Constantino had already cheated death.<\/p>\n<p>Elianna has a rare inherited blood disorder called alpha thalassemia major, which prevents her red blood cells from forming properly. The disease, which has no cure, is usually fatal for a developing fetus.<\/p>\n<p>But while still in her mother\u2019s womb, Elianna received a highly daring treatment. Doctors isolated healthy blood stem cells from her mother and injected them through a blood vessel that runs down the umbilical cord. Four months later, Elianna was born with a loud cry and a glistening head of hair, defying all medical odds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/06\/13\/pioneering-stem-cell-trial-seeks-to-cure-babies-before-birth\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5f23a4c9af-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-5f23a4c9af-58220945#sm.0001sqm1aq19zuf83wpdfi31ot0oa\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/06\/13\/pioneering-stem-cell-t...dfi31ot0oa<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before she was born, Elianna Constantino had already cheated death. Elianna has a rare inherited blood disorder called alpha thalassemia major, which prevents her red blood cells from forming properly. The disease, which has no cure, is usually fatal for a developing fetus. But while still in her mother\u2019s womb, Elianna received a highly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79613","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}