{"id":13998,"date":"2015-04-17T03:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=13998"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:59:33","slug":"in-the-future-spider-silk-may-help-grow-your-replacement-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/in-the-future-spider-silk-may-help-grow-your-replacement-heart","title":{"rendered":"In The Future, Spider Silk May Help Grow Your Replacement Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maddie Stone<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Gizmodo<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s been a lot of talk lately about how spider silk is this crazy wonder material<\/a> that may soon find its way into everything from electronics<\/a> to ultra-strong fabrics<\/a>. Now, there\u2019s another reason to be excited about spider silk: doctors might one day use the stuff to grow you a new heart.<\/p>\n

Growing new organs and tissues outside the body is the bleeding edge of biomedical research. Just imagine: if doctors could grow replacement hearts or kidneys from a patient\u2019s own stem cells, that patient would no longer have to face the agonizing prospect of waiting to find a suitable donor. The risk of organ rejection would become nil. But there\u2019s a lot of R&D to be done before we get there. One initial challenge has been finding a scaffold material to grow organ tissues on\u2014something that\u2019s non-toxic, will not impede cell growth, and will not, itself, be rejected by the body. That, it turns out, is a pretty tall order. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maddie Stone \u2014 Gizmodo There\u2019s been a lot of talk lately about how spider silk is this crazy wonder material that may soon find its way into everything from electronics to ultra-strong fabrics. Now, there\u2019s another reason to be excited about spider silk: doctors might one day use the stuff to grow you a new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64758,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13998\/revisions\/64758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}