{"id":102423,"date":"2020-02-16T09:23:07","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/worlds-first-3d-printed-heart-could-revolutionize-organ-transplants"},"modified":"2020-02-16T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T17:23:07","slug":"worlds-first-3d-printed-heart-could-revolutionize-organ-transplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/worlds-first-3d-printed-heart-could-revolutionize-organ-transplants","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s First 3D-Printed Heart Could Revolutionize Organ Transplants"},"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\/Fa6alMHPvOA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many of you are way ahead of me on this topic. I design 3D printed parts for aircraft, but I didn\u2019t think that functional, transplantable 3D printed human organs were this advanced. This article is about a heart, but it is currently only the size of a rabbit heart. Sizing it up to human size and testing are next, but this is much farther along than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>Rapid creation of replacement organs, using the patient\u2019s own cells to circumvent the body rejecting the transplant, is a direct contributor to superlongevity.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers from Tel Aviv University have created the world\u2019s first 3D printed heart, using cellular materials from the patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you are way ahead of me on this topic. I design 3D printed parts for aircraft, but I didn\u2019t think that functional, transplantable 3D printed human organs were this advanced. This article is about a heart, but it is currently only the size of a rabbit heart. Sizing it up to human size [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102423","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\/102423","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\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}