{"id":93796,"date":"2019-07-17T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-have-discovered-a-new-stem-cell-that-could-heal-brain-damage"},"modified":"2019-07-17T11:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:43:32","slug":"scientists-have-discovered-a-new-stem-cell-that-could-heal-brain-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/scientists-have-discovered-a-new-stem-cell-that-could-heal-brain-damage","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Discovered a New Stem Cell That Could Heal Brain Damage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-discovered-a-new-stem-cell-that-could-heal-brain-damage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A newly discovered type of stem cell could help brains repair themselves from injury or even debilitating diseases like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimers-disease-beta-amyloid-source-outside-brain\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>, according to the latest research.<\/p>\n<p>Called the \u201cG2 quiescent stem cell\u201d, it\u2019s one of several \u2018sleeping\u2019 (or quiescent) stem cells in the brain.<\/p>\n<p>But this one is showing more potential for regeneration than the others have so far. Like other stem cells, it can produce cells of all different types on demand \u2013 whatever the body needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A newly discovered type of stem cell could help brains repair themselves from injury or even debilitating diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s, according to the latest research. Called the \u201cG2 quiescent stem cell\u201d, it\u2019s one of several \u2018sleeping\u2019 (or quiescent) stem cells in the brain. But this one is showing more potential for regeneration than the others [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93796","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\/93796","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=93796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}