{"id":97859,"date":"2019-10-26T08:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T15:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-biomaterial-developed-that-could-be-a-treatment-for-spinal-cord-injuries"},"modified":"2019-10-26T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T15:02:39","slug":"new-biomaterial-developed-that-could-be-a-treatment-for-spinal-cord-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/new-biomaterial-developed-that-could-be-a-treatment-for-spinal-cord-injuries","title":{"rendered":"New Biomaterial Developed That Could Be a Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-biomaterial-developed-that-could-be-a-treatment-for-spinal-cord-injuries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Polymerized estrogen shown to protect nervous system cells. Research could enable improved treatment of spinal cord injuries.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Spinal cord damage that causes paralysis and reduced mobility doesn\u2019t always stop with the initial trauma, but there are few treatment options to halt increased deterioration \u2014 and there is no cure. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a promising new biomaterial that could offer targeted treatment to the damaged spinal cord and tissue, preventing further damage.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-019-12835-w\">research<\/a> published today (October 23, 2019) in <em>Nature Communications<\/em>, an interdisciplinary team from Rensselaer demonstrated how estrogen \u2014 a natural hormone produced in the body \u2014 can be polymerized into a slow-releasing biomaterial and applied to nervous system cells to protect those cells and even promote regeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polymerized estrogen shown to protect nervous system cells. Research could enable improved treatment of spinal cord injuries. Spinal cord damage that causes paralysis and reduced mobility doesn\u2019t always stop with the initial trauma, but there are few treatment options to halt increased deterioration \u2014 and there is no cure. Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97859","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}