{"id":90524,"date":"2019-05-09T14:03:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/stem-cell-scientists-clear-another-hurdle-in-creating-transplant-arteries"},"modified":"2019-05-09T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T21:03:12","slug":"stem-cell-scientists-clear-another-hurdle-in-creating-transplant-arteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/stem-cell-scientists-clear-another-hurdle-in-creating-transplant-arteries","title":{"rendered":"Stem cell scientists clear another hurdle in creating transplant arteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stem-cell-scientists-clear-another-hurdle-in-creating-transplant-arteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of death worldwide, and treating it isn\u2019t easy. The disease wreaks havoc on patients\u2019 blood vessels and can require complex bypass surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research are working toward a dream of creating artery banks\u2014similar to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood<\/a> banks common today\u2014with readily-available material to replace diseased arteries during surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The latest work in the lab of Morgridge regenerative biologist James Thomson puts the science one step closer to that goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-stem-cell-scientists-hurdle-transplant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of death worldwide, and treating it isn\u2019t easy. The disease wreaks havoc on patients\u2019 blood vessels and can require complex bypass surgery. Scientists at the Morgridge Institute for Research are working toward a dream of creating artery banks\u2014similar to blood banks common today\u2014with readily-available material to replace diseased arteries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90524","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}