{"id":713,"date":"2006-10-20T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=713"},"modified":"2006-10-20T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T15:25:00","slug":"progress_in_the_fight_against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/10\/20\/progress_in_the_fight_against\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress in the Fight Against ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">Wired.com<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/biotech\/2006\/10\/study_stem_cell.html\">reporting<\/a> that scientists at Johns Hopkins have had encouraging results in an experiment involving stem cells and rats stricken with ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease, which is a degenerative neurological condition. The scientists injected stem cells into the spinal cords of the rats; not only did the stem cells develop into functional nerves that linked to the rats&#8217; existing nervous system, but the new cells also resisted the disease until the rats died.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall that <a title=\"Bush\u2019s First Veto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/07\/bushs_first_veto\/\">I&#8217;ve had some first-hand experience<\/a> with this disease. I&#8217;m realistic enough to know that we&#8217;re still a long way from any kind of stem-cell therapy for ALS, let alone a cure, but this is nonetheless a very, very welcome development. I&#8217;d like nothing better than to see this shit eradicated in my lifetime&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired.com is reporting that scientists at Johns Hopkins have had encouraging results in an experiment involving stem cells and rats stricken with ALS, a.k.a. Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease, which is a degenerative neurological condition. The scientists injected stem cells into the spinal cords of the rats; not only did the stem cells develop into functional nerves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}