{"id":91543,"date":"2019-06-02T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T20:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spraying-stem-cells-up-the-noses-of-mice-has-restored-their-sense-of-smell"},"modified":"2019-06-02T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T20:02:41","slug":"spraying-stem-cells-up-the-noses-of-mice-has-restored-their-sense-of-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spraying-stem-cells-up-the-noses-of-mice-has-restored-their-sense-of-smell","title":{"rendered":"Spraying Stem Cells Up The Noses of Mice Has Restored Their Sense of Smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spraying-stem-cells-up-the-noses-of-mice-has-restored-their-sense-of-smell3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a simple and effective treatment for restoring the sense of smell in people who have lost it or never had it in the first place \u2013 that could one day be possible as a result of early stage research on mice, in which olfactory nerves were replenished using stem cells.<\/p>\n<p>Using droplets of globose basal cells \u2013 the same cells that naturally replace damaged and ageing neurons related to smell \u2013 scientists were able to get them to develop into full nerve cells, stretching right into the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately a few squirts of stem cells were able to reconnect the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Axon\">axons<\/a> leading to the olfactory signalling in the brains of the mice. Scientists are still a long way from repeating the trick with human beings, but it\u2019s a very promising start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/spraying-stem-cells-up-the-noses-of-mice-can-restore-their-sense-of-smell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a simple and effective treatment for restoring the sense of smell in people who have lost it or never had it in the first place \u2013 that could one day be possible as a result of early stage research on mice, in which olfactory nerves were replenished using stem cells. Using droplets of globose [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91543","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=91543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}