{"id":107122,"date":"2020-05-15T14:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T21:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/lab-grown-mini-kidneys-are-bringing-science-closer-to-custom-organs"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:42:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T21:42:50","slug":"lab-grown-mini-kidneys-are-bringing-science-closer-to-custom-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/lab-grown-mini-kidneys-are-bringing-science-closer-to-custom-organs","title":{"rendered":"Lab-Grown Mini Kidneys Are Bringing Science Closer to Custom Organs"},"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\/op04x1kpdGU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Science\u2019s dream of creating perfect custom organs on demand as soon as a patient needs one is still a long way off. But tiny versions are already serving as useful research tools and stepping stones toward full-fledged replacements.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lowdown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers have grown hundreds of mini human kidneys in the past few years. Known as organoids, they function much like their full-grown counterparts, minus a few features due to a lack of blood supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science\u2019s dream of creating perfect custom organs on demand as soon as a patient needs one is still a long way off. But tiny versions are already serving as useful research tools and stepping stones toward full-fledged replacements. The Lowdown Australian researchers have grown hundreds of mini human kidneys in the past few years. Known [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":554,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107122","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\/554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}