{"id":985,"date":"2013-03-11T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T09:28:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-09-06T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T09:53:47","slug":"brothers-cord-blood-stem-cells-treat-cystic-fibrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/2013\/03\/brothers-cord-blood-stem-cells-treat-cystic-fibrosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother&#8217;s cord blood stem cells treat Cystic Fibrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\">\n<div>\n<p>Times Online (New Zealand)<\/p>\n<p>Three-year-old Jordan Payne doesn\u2019t know it yet, but one day he could well be the key to saving his brother\u2019s life.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan&#8217;s older brother Tayler has <a href=\"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/cystic-fibrosis-and-stem-cells\/\">cystic fibrosis<\/a> (CF), a genetic condition that thickens the body\u2019s mucus and blocks tiny tubes in various organs. \u00a0To keep Tayler&#8217;s airways clear, prevent lung damage and reduce infection, he requires regular physiotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>When Jordan was born his parents decided to save his <a href=\"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/cord-blood-banking-overview\/about-umbilical-cord-blood\/\">umbilical cord blood<\/a> stem cells in the hope that advances in medicine will one day make use of <a href=\"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/2016\/03\/national-sibling-day-cord-blood\/\">Jordan\u2019s banked stem cells<\/a> and make a difference to the life of their eldest son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_news_link\">\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medscape.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.medscape.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_news_image\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online (New Zealand) Three-year-old Jordan Payne doesn\u2019t know it yet, but one day he could well be the key to saving his brother\u2019s life. Jordan&#8217;s older brother Tayler has cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic condition that thickens the body\u2019s mucus and blocks tiny tubes in various organs. \u00a0To keep Tayler&#8217;s airways clear, prevent lung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12775,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/12775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}