{"id":87633,"date":"2019-02-11T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T14:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/converting-cells-into-new-neurons-could-lead-to-a-pill-that-repairs-brain-damage"},"modified":"2019-02-11T06:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T14:02:24","slug":"converting-cells-into-new-neurons-could-lead-to-a-pill-that-repairs-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/converting-cells-into-new-neurons-could-lead-to-a-pill-that-repairs-brain-damage","title":{"rendered":"Converting cells into new neurons could lead to a pill that repairs brain damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/converting-cells-into-new-neurons-could-lead-to-a-pill-that-repairs-brain-damage.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As powerful as the human brain is, once it\u2019s damaged it can\u2019t really recover completely. Now researchers at Penn State may have found a way to boost the brain\u2019s regenerative abilities, using certain molecules to convert neighboring cells into new neurons. The technique could eventually lead to pills that treat brain injuries, stroke or Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/convert-cells-neurons-brain-damage-pill\/58417\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/convert-cells-neurons-brain-damage-pill\/58417\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As powerful as the human brain is, once it\u2019s damaged it can\u2019t really recover completely. Now researchers at Penn State may have found a way to boost the brain\u2019s regenerative abilities, using certain molecules to convert neighboring cells into new neurons. The technique could eventually lead to pills that treat brain injuries, stroke or Alzheimer\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87633","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\/87633","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=87633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}