{"id":2912,"date":"2009-03-02T11:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/02\/science\/"},"modified":"2009-03-02T11:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:24:00","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/02\/science\/","title":{"rendered":"SCIENCE!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/mar\/01\/stem-cells-breakthrough\">Scientists have found a way to make an almost limitless supply of stem cells that could safely be used in patients while avoiding the &#8220;ethical&#8221; dilemma of destroying embryos<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a breakthrough that could have huge implications, British and Canadian scientists have found a way of reprogramming skin cells taken from adults, effectively winding the clock back on the cells until they were in an embryonic form.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Because the cells can be made from a patient&#8217;s own skin, they carry the same DNA and so could be used without a risk of being rejected by the immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists showed they could make stem cells from adult cells more than a year ago, but the cells could never be used in patients because the procedure involved injecting viruses that could cause cancer. Overcoming the problem has been a major stumbling block in efforts to make stem cells fulfil their promise of transforming the future of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists at the universities of Edinburgh and Toronto have found a way to achieve the same feat without using viruses, making so-called induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell therapies a realistic prospect for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found a way to make an almost limitless supply of stem cells that could safely be used in patients while avoiding the &#8220;ethical&#8221; dilemma of destroying embryos: In a breakthrough that could have huge implications, British and Canadian scientists have found a way of reprogramming skin cells taken from adults, effectively winding the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/02\/science\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SCIENCE!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1026,1595,196],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-canadiana","tag-medicine","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}