{"id":80353,"date":"2018-07-03T13:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/human-stem-cells-give-monkey-hearts-a-boost-after-heart-attacks-study-says"},"modified":"2018-07-03T13:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T20:42:24","slug":"human-stem-cells-give-monkey-hearts-a-boost-after-heart-attacks-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/human-stem-cells-give-monkey-hearts-a-boost-after-heart-attacks-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Human stem cells give monkey hearts a boost after heart attacks, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/human-stem-cells-give-monkey-hearts-a-boost-after-heart-attacks-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following heart attacks, a handful of monkeys regained some of the pumping ability their hearts had lost after being given human embryonic stem cells, according to a study published Monday in Nature Biotechnology.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists have tried for years to develop a stem cell treatment for<strong> <\/strong>heart disease caused by lack of blood flow, which contributed to more than 9.4 million deaths worldwide in 2016, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.who.int\/gho\/mortality_burden_disease\/causes_death\/top_10\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Health Organization.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re talking about the number one cause of death in the world [for humans],\u201d said study author Dr. Charles Murry, director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington. \u201cAnd at the moment all of our treatments are \u2026 dancing around the root problem, which is that you don\u2019t have enough muscle cells.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/02\/health\/monkey-heart-attack-stem-cell-study\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/07\/02\/health\/monkey-heart-attack-st...index.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following heart attacks, a handful of monkeys regained some of the pumping ability their hearts had lost after being given human embryonic stem cells, according to a study published Monday in Nature Biotechnology. Scientists have tried for years to develop a stem cell treatment for heart disease caused by lack of blood flow, which contributed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80353","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=80353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}