{"id":743,"date":"2006-11-10T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T17:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=743"},"modified":"2006-11-10T17:30:46","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T17:30:46","slug":"more_hope_from_stem_cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/10\/more_hope_from_stem_cells\/","title":{"rendered":"More Hope from Stem Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.familygreenberg.com\/2006\/11\/three-blind-mice-see-how-theysee.html\">Brian Greenberg<\/a> is linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,20729817-663,00.html\">an article<\/a> that notes yet more promising results from stem-cell research:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Researchers from University College London and London&#8217;s Moorfields Eye Hospital used basic cells with the ability to turn into different types of tissue to restore the vision in blind mice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Until now, there was no way of reversing the damage. Previous attempts at stem cell transplants had failed. &#8230;Researchers realised their success when, by shining light into the animals&#8217; eyes, they were able to show that vision had been restored to about a quarter of normal levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While my personal interest in stem-cell research is centered around <a title=\"Bush\u2019s First Veto\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2006\/07\/bushs_first_veto\/\">a different malady<\/a>, I am nevertheless fascinated by how many different ailments these things may help or even cure someday. This research simply <i>must<\/i> be supported; maybe with the political upheaval this week, the federal government will adopt a more forward-looking approach to this admittedly controversial subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Greenberg is linking to an article that notes yet more promising results from stem-cell research:<\/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-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esoterica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}