{"id":101894,"date":"2020-02-04T22:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-grow-yarn-out-of-human-skin-cells-so-they-can-literally-stitch-people-up"},"modified":"2020-02-04T22:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T06:42:52","slug":"scientists-grow-yarn-out-of-human-skin-cells-so-they-can-literally-stitch-people-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/scientists-grow-yarn-out-of-human-skin-cells-so-they-can-literally-stitch-people-up","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Grow \u2018Yarn\u2019 Out of Human Skin Cells So They Can Literally Stitch People Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grow-yarn-out-of-human-skin-cells-so-they-can-literally-stitch-people-up3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux have grown yarn from human skin cells that they call a \u201chuman textile\u201d \u2014 and they say it could be used by surgeons to close wounds or assemble implantable skin grafts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese human textiles offer a unique level of biocompatibility and represent a new generation of completely biological tissue-engineered products,\u201d the researchers wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1742706120300520?via%3Dihub\">a paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Acta Biomaterialia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The key advantage of the gruesome yarn is that unlike conventional synthetic surgical materials, the material doesn\u2019t trigger an immune response that can complicate the healing process, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2232357-yarn-grown-from-human-skin-cells-could-be-knitted-into-your-body\/\">according to <em>New Scientist<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of researchers at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Bordeaux have grown yarn from human skin cells that they call a \u201chuman textile\u201d \u2014 and they say it could be used by surgeons to close wounds or assemble implantable skin grafts. \u201cThese human textiles offer a unique level of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101894","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}