{"id":96568,"date":"2019-09-23T04:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/man-given-his-eyesight-back-through-stem-cell-treatment-25-years-after-acid-attack-left-him-blind"},"modified":"2019-09-23T04:25:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:25:06","slug":"man-given-his-eyesight-back-through-stem-cell-treatment-25-years-after-acid-attack-left-him-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/man-given-his-eyesight-back-through-stem-cell-treatment-25-years-after-acid-attack-left-him-blind","title":{"rendered":"Man given his eyesight back through stem cell treatment 25 years after acid attack left him blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/man-given-his-eyesight-back-through-stem-cell-treatment-25-years-after-acid-attack-left-him-blind2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now 44, he has become the first patient to undergo a new life-changing eye surgery on the NHS, with doctors using stem cells from his healthy left eye to grow tissue in a lab and restore his sight.<\/p>\n<p>Mr O\u2019Brien said: \u201cBeing able to see through both eyes after all these years means the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now 44, he has become the first patient to undergo a new life-changing eye surgery on the NHS, with doctors using stem cells from his healthy left eye to grow tissue in a lab and restore his sight. Mr O\u2019Brien said: \u201cBeing able to see through both eyes after all these years means the world [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96568","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}