{"id":108122,"date":"2020-06-03T12:03:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lab-grown-mini-livers-bring-us-closer-to-an-organ-donor-free-future"},"modified":"2020-06-03T12:03:55","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T19:03:55","slug":"lab-grown-mini-livers-bring-us-closer-to-an-organ-donor-free-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/lab-grown-mini-livers-bring-us-closer-to-an-organ-donor-free-future","title":{"rendered":"Lab-grown mini-livers bring us closer to an organ donor-free future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lab-grown-mini-livers-bring-us-closer-to-an-organ-donor-free-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a fascinating new <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.celrep.2020.107711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">study<\/a>, scientists created fully-functional mini-livers out of human skin cells, then successfully transplanted them into rats.<\/p>\n<p>The research is a proof-of-concept for potentially revolutionary technology and provides a glimpse of an organ donor free future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fascinating new study, scientists created fully-functional mini-livers out of human skin cells, then successfully transplanted them into rats. The research is a proof-of-concept for potentially revolutionary technology and provides a glimpse of an organ donor free future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108122","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=108122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}