{"id":87212,"date":"2019-01-30T18:06:52","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-brain-may-be-able-to-repair-itself-with-help"},"modified":"2019-01-30T18:06:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:06:52","slug":"the-brain-may-be-able-to-repair-itself-with-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-brain-may-be-able-to-repair-itself-with-help","title":{"rendered":"The brain may be able to repair itself \u2014 with help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-brain-may-be-able-to-repair-itself-with-help3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain\u2019s inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: Doublecortin-positive cells. Similar to stem cells, they are extremely adaptable and, when extracted from a brain, cultured and then re-injected in a lesioned area of the same brain, they can help repair and rebuild it. \u201cWith a little help,\u201d Bloch says, \u201cthe brain may be able to help itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jocelyne_bloch_the_brain_may_be_able_to_repair_itself_with_help\/details?language=en&utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=talk&utm_term=science\">https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/jocelyne_bloch_the_brain_may_be_ab...rm=science<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through treating everything from strokes to car accident traumas, neurosurgeon Jocelyne Bloch knows the brain\u2019s inability to repair itself all too well. But now, she suggests, she and her colleagues may have found the key to neural repair: Doublecortin-positive cells. Similar to stem cells, they are extremely adaptable and, when extracted from a brain, cultured [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87212","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}