{"id":96317,"date":"2019-09-16T13:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/johns-hopkins-breakthrough-opens-the-door-for-stem-cell-transplants-to-repair-the-brain"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T20:42:25","slug":"johns-hopkins-breakthrough-opens-the-door-for-stem-cell-transplants-to-repair-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/johns-hopkins-breakthrough-opens-the-door-for-stem-cell-transplants-to-repair-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Johns Hopkins Breakthrough Opens the Door for Stem Cell Transplants to Repair the Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/johns-hopkins-breakthrough-opens-the-door-for-stem-cell-transplants-to-repair-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Transplanted brain stem cells survive without anti-rejection drugs in mice. By exploiting a feature of the immune system, researchers open the door for stem cell transplants to repair the brain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In experiments in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need for lifelong anti-rejection drugs.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/brain\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/brain\/awz275\/5566928\">report<\/a> on the research, published today (September 16, 2019) in the journal <em>Brain,<\/em> details the new approach, which selectively circumvents the immune response against foreign cells, allowing transplanted cells to survive, thrive and protect brain tissue long after stopping immune-suppressing drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transplanted brain stem cells survive without anti-rejection drugs in mice. By exploiting a feature of the immune system, researchers open the door for stem cell transplants to repair the brain. In experiments in mice, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers say they have developed a way to successfully transplant certain protective brain cells without the need for [\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-96317","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\/96317","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=96317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}