{"id":98649,"date":"2019-11-16T21:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/another-adult-stem-cell-breakthrough"},"modified":"2019-11-16T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T05:43:52","slug":"another-adult-stem-cell-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/another-adult-stem-cell-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"Another adult stem cell breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JZnNtdeO-kU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have discovered yet another life-giving treatment for disease using adult stem cells, while the number of substantial medical breakthroughs from life-taking embryonic stem cell research remains essentially zero.<\/p>\n<p>Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), also known as Devic\u2019s disease, causes the immune system to react against the body\u2019s own cells in the central nervous system, particularly the eyes and spinal cord. Those who contract the disease usually lose their eyesight and ability to walk within five years.<\/p>\n<p>Stem cells are the body\u2019s cell factories, aiding in growth and damage repair. In a study <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/n.neurology.org\/content\/early\/2019\/10\/02\/WNL.0000000000008394\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> Oct. 2 in <em>Neurology<\/em>, researchers from Northwestern University and the Mayo Clinic tested a new adult stem cell treatment on 12 people with NMO. They drew hematopoietic stem cells (also known as blood stem cells) from the patient\u2019s bone marrow or blood. Then they used chemotherapy to shut down the patient\u2019s malfunctioning immune system. When they transplanted the stem cells back into the patient\u2019s body, the immune system restarted from scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have discovered yet another life-giving treatment for disease using adult stem cells, while the number of substantial medical breakthroughs from life-taking embryonic stem cell research remains essentially zero. Neuromyelitis optica (NMO), also known as Devic\u2019s disease, causes the immune system to react against the body\u2019s own cells in the central nervous system, particularly the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98649","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=98649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}