{"id":127,"date":"2005-07-28T10:51:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T17:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:26:35","slug":"stem-cells-mend-spinal-cords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/stem-cells-mend-spinal-cords\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem Cells Mend Spinal Cords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, Michael, I get the idea. Stem cell works; and I believe you even without this article: <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/medtech\/0,1286,68331,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_11\" target=\"_blank\">Stem Cells Mend Spinal Cords<\/a> from Wired. Convince your Religious Rights and Evangelical White House this and the world will be a better place.<\/p>\n<p>This study shows that stem cells collected from  rat embryos can be grown into specialized cells by producing a special chemical called growth factor which helps <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Myelin\" target=\"_blank\">myelin<\/a> attach on to nerve fibers for better conductivity of nerve signals.<\/p>\n<p>But this still goes to the core of the question: Do stem cells collected from the umbilical cord blood work just as well? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, Michael, I get the idea. Stem cell works; and I believe you even without this article: Stem Cells Mend Spinal Cords from Wired. Convince your Religious Rights and Evangelical White House this and the world will be a better place. This study shows that stem cells collected from rat embryos can be grown into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/28\/stem-cells-mend-spinal-cords\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stem Cells Mend Spinal Cords&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-politics","category-society-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-23","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}