{"id":102144,"date":"2020-02-10T09:43:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/handheld-skin-3d-printer-can-help-burn-victims"},"modified":"2020-02-10T09:43:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T17:43:51","slug":"handheld-skin-3d-printer-can-help-burn-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/handheld-skin-3d-printer-can-help-burn-victims","title":{"rendered":"Handheld Skin 3D Printer Can Help Burn Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jDMcRQgWF3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This handheld 3D printer deposits layers of skin tissue, and could one day help to heal deep wounds. Instead of waiting for skin patches to grow in a Petri dish, you apply it directly.<\/p>\n<p>A team of Canadian scientists has successfully applied skin tissue to burn wounds using a handheld 3D printer. This technology may become a game-changer in the way severe burn victims are treated.<\/p>\n<p>The handheld skin 3D printer, the work of scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/sunnybrook.ca\/media\/item.asp?c=1&i=1732&page=33939&f=handheld-skin-printer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">University of Toronto Engineering and Sunnybrook Hospital<\/a>, was first shown back in 2018. Since then it has undergone a major redesign that improves upon the initial model\u2019s functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This handheld 3D printer deposits layers of skin tissue, and could one day help to heal deep wounds. Instead of waiting for skin patches to grow in a Petri dish, you apply it directly. A team of Canadian scientists has successfully applied skin tissue to burn wounds using a handheld 3D printer. This technology may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102144","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}