{"id":140385,"date":"2022-06-11T00:02:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T05:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/when-well-be-able-to-3d-print-organs-and-who-will-be-able-to-afford-them"},"modified":"2022-06-11T00:02:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T05:02:43","slug":"when-well-be-able-to-3d-print-organs-and-who-will-be-able-to-afford-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/when-well-be-able-to-3d-print-organs-and-who-will-be-able-to-afford-them","title":{"rendered":"When we\u2019ll be able to 3D-print organs and who will be able to afford them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-well-be-able-to-3d-print-organs-and-who-will-be-able-to-afford-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To begin the process of bioprinting an organ, doctors typically start with a patient\u2019s own cells. They take a small needle biopsy of an organ or do a minimally invasive surgical procedure that removes a small piece of tissue, \u201cless than half the size of a postage stamp,\u201d Atala said. \u201cBy taking this small piece of tissue, we are able to tease cells apart (and) we grow and expand the cells outside the body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This growth happens inside a sterile incubator or bioreactor, a pressurized stainless steel vessel that helps the cells stay fed with nutrients \u2013 called \u201cmedia\u201d \u2013 the doctors feed them every 24 hours, since cells have their own metabolism, Lewis said. Each cell type has a different media, and the incubator or bioreactor acts as an oven-like device mimicking the internal temperature and oxygenation of the human body, Atala said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen we mix it with this gel, which is like a glue,\u201d Atala said. \u201cEvery organ in your body has the cells and the glue that holds it together. Basically, that\u2019s also called \u2018extracellular matrix.\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To begin the process of bioprinting an organ, doctors typically start with a patient\u2019s own cells. They take a small needle biopsy of an organ or do a minimally invasive surgical procedure that removes a small piece of tissue, \u201cless than half the size of a postage stamp,\u201d Atala said. \u201cBy taking this small piece [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1503,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140385","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}