{"id":90659,"date":"2019-05-13T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/awakening-stem-cells-to-unlock-the-brains-regenerative-potential"},"modified":"2019-05-13T11:42:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:42:46","slug":"awakening-stem-cells-to-unlock-the-brains-regenerative-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/awakening-stem-cells-to-unlock-the-brains-regenerative-potential","title":{"rendered":"Awakening stem cells to unlock the brain\u2019s regenerative potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/awakening-stem-cells-to-unlock-the-brains-regenerative-potential.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human body has powerful healing abilities. But treating brain disorders is no easy task, as brain cells\u2014neurons\u2014have limited ability to regenerate. Nonetheless, stem cells are a form of natural backup, a vestige of our days as still-developing embryos.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty is that with age, neural stem cells \u2018fall asleep\u2019 and become harder to wake up when repairs are needed. Despite efforts to harness these cells to treat neurological damage, scientists have until recently been unsuccessful in decoding the underlying \u2018sleep\u2019 mechanism.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers at Kyoto University studying brain chemistry in mice have revealed the ebb and flow of gene expression that may wake neural stem cells from their slumber. These findings, which may also apply to stem cells elsewhere in the body, were recently published in the journal Genes &amp; Development.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-awakening-stem-cells-brain-regenerative.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>The human body has powerful healing abilities. But treating brain disorders is no easy task, as brain cells\u2014neurons\u2014have limited ability to regenerate. Nonetheless, stem cells are a form of natural backup, a vestige of our days as still-developing embryos. The difficulty is that with age, neural stem cells \u2018fall asleep\u2019 and become harder to wake [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90659","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=90659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}