{"id":92974,"date":"2019-07-01T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/its-hard-to-kill-blood-stem-cells-now-we-know-why"},"modified":"2019-07-01T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T22:42:22","slug":"its-hard-to-kill-blood-stem-cells-now-we-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/its-hard-to-kill-blood-stem-cells-now-we-know-why","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Hard to Kill Blood Stem Cells\u2014Now We Know Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-hard-to-kill-blood-stem-cells-now-we-know-why2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For most of their lives, our hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)\u2014which produce all of our blood and immune cells\u2014are quiet and inactive. But they also are the toughest cells in the blood system, able to survive exposure to levels of radiation or viral infections that kill most other blood cells.<\/p>\n<p>A new study from researchers in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stemcell.columbia.edu\">Columbia\u2019s Stem Cell Initiative<\/a> has discovered how HSCs cheat death, which could lead to new therapies for blood cancers and other diseases related to aging and improve stem cell transplantation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For most of their lives, our hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)\u2014which produce all of our blood and immune cells\u2014are quiet and inactive. But they also are the toughest cells in the blood system, able to survive exposure to levels of radiation or viral infections that kill most other blood cells. A new study from researchers in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92974","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=92974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}