{"id":116249,"date":"2020-11-23T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-3d-printed-squishy-brain-like-tissue-for-the-1st-time"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:24:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T21:24:56","slug":"scientists-3d-printed-squishy-brain-like-tissue-for-the-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-3d-printed-squishy-brain-like-tissue-for-the-1st-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists 3D-Printed Squishy, Brain-Like Tissue for the 1st Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-3d-printed-squishy-brain-like-tissue-for-the-1st-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2018<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Livescience.com\">Livescience.com<\/a> | By LIVESCIENCE<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/topics\/3d-printing\">3D-printing<\/a> technique can create tissues as soft as a human\u2019s squishy brain or spongy lungs \u2014 something that has not been possible before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditive manufacturing,\u201d or 3D printing, promises to allow doctors to produce tailored organs for patients using the patients\u2019 own cells, which could help bring down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/52526-rarity-of-organ-donations-forcing-patients-to-get-creative.html\">severe shortage of organs available<\/a> for people who need transplants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2018 Livescience.com | By LIVESCIENCE A new 3D-printing technique can create tissues as soft as a human\u2019s squishy brain or spongy lungs \u2014 something that has not been possible before. \u201cAdditive manufacturing,\u201d or 3D printing, promises to allow doctors to produce tailored organs for patients using the patients\u2019 own cells, which could help bring [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116249","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}