{"id":80527,"date":"2018-07-10T19:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T02:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/researchers-confine-mature-cells-to-turn-them-into-stem-cells"},"modified":"2018-07-10T19:04:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T02:04:38","slug":"researchers-confine-mature-cells-to-turn-them-into-stem-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/researchers-confine-mature-cells-to-turn-them-into-stem-cells","title":{"rendered":"Researchers confine mature cells to turn them into stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-confine-mature-cells-to-turn-them-into-stem-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent research led by Professor G.V. Shivashankar of the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Italy, has revealed that mature cells can be reprogrammed into re-deployable stem cells without direct genetic modification \u2014 by confining them to a defined geometric space for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur breakthrough findings will usher in a new generation of stem cell technologies for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine that may overcome the negative effects of geonomic manipulation,\u201d said Prof Shivashankar.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/07\/180710113502.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2018\/07\/180710113502.h...m=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent research led by Professor G.V. Shivashankar of the Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Italy, has revealed that mature cells can be reprogrammed into re-deployable stem cells without direct genetic modification \u2014 by confining them to a defined geometric space for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,269,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-life-extension","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80527","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}