{"id":100521,"date":"2020-01-05T10:42:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T18:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/scientists-print-functional-human-mini-livers"},"modified":"2020-01-05T10:42:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T18:42:42","slug":"scientists-print-functional-human-mini-livers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/scientists-print-functional-human-mini-livers","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Print Functional Human \u201cMini-Livers\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-print-functional-human-mini-livers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Brazilian researchers have succesfully bioprinted tiny organoids that perform all of the human liver\u2019s functions, Brazilian news service <a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/researchers-create-functional-mini-liver-by-3d-bioprinting\/32217\/\"><em>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP<\/em> reports<\/a> \u2014 functions including building proteins, storing vitamins and secreting bile.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers had to cultivate and reprogram human stem cells, and then 3D print them in layers to form tissue.<\/p>\n<p>While the \u201cmini-livers\u201d perform the functions of a liver, they\u2019re unfortunately still a far cry from an actual full-scale liver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Brazilian researchers have succesfully bioprinted tiny organoids that perform all of the human liver\u2019s functions, Brazilian news service Ag\u00eancia FAPESP reports \u2014 functions including building proteins, storing vitamins and secreting bile. The researchers had to cultivate and reprogram human stem cells, and then 3D print them in layers to form tissue. While [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}