{"id":85023,"date":"2018-11-22T23:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/bioengineered-spinal-discs-show-promise-in-goats"},"modified":"2018-11-22T23:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T07:22:29","slug":"bioengineered-spinal-discs-show-promise-in-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/bioengineered-spinal-discs-show-promise-in-goats","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineered spinal discs show promise \u2013 in goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioengineered-spinal-discs-show-promise-in-goats.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the shock-absorbing cartilage discs between our vertebrae degenerate due to aging, accidents or overuse, severe back pain can result. While some scientists have developed purely synthetic replacement discs, a recent test on goats indicates that bioengineered discs may be a better way to go.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/edaps-bioengineered-spinal-discs\/57361\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/edaps-bioengineered-spinal-discs\/57361\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the shock-absorbing cartilage discs between our vertebrae degenerate due to aging, accidents or overuse, severe back pain can result. While some scientists have developed purely synthetic replacement discs, a recent test on goats indicates that bioengineered discs may be a better way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85023","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=85023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}