{"id":122939,"date":"2021-05-23T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T21:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/this-beating-sesame-seed-sized-human-heart-grew-itself-in-a-lab"},"modified":"2021-05-23T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T21:43:28","slug":"this-beating-sesame-seed-sized-human-heart-grew-itself-in-a-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/this-beating-sesame-seed-sized-human-heart-grew-itself-in-a-lab","title":{"rendered":"This Beating Sesame Seed-Sized \u2018Human Heart\u2019 Grew Itself in a Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-beating-sesame-seed-sized-human-heart-grew-itself-in-a-lab.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have successfully grown a bundle of human <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/stem-cells\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"stem cells\">stem cells<\/a> into a tiny artificial \u201cheart\u201d the size of a sesame seed.<\/p>\n<p>The pulsating mass is the first self-organizing miniature organ to resemble the human heart, including a hollow chamber enclosed by a wall of cardiac-like tissue.<\/p>\n<p>Simple heart-like organs, or cardioids, have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-recreate-a-whole-body-s-worth-of-organoids-just-one-millionth-of-the-size\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">built in the lab before<\/a>, but only using a scaffold, a mold, or a matrix for the cells to assemble around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have successfully grown a bundle of human stem cells into a tiny artificial \u201cheart\u201d the size of a sesame seed. The pulsating mass is the first self-organizing miniature organ to resemble the human heart, including a hollow chamber enclosed by a wall of cardiac-like tissue. Simple heart-like organs, or cardioids, have been built in [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939","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=122939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}