{"id":14125,"date":"2015-04-30T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14125"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:06:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:06:24","slug":"theyre-alive-watch-these-mini-3d-printed-organs-beat-just-like-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/theyre-alive-watch-these-mini-3d-printed-organs-beat-just-like-hearts","title":{"rendered":"They\u2019re Alive! Watch These Mini 3D Printed Organs Beat Just Like Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a title=\"Posts by Jason Dorrier\" href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/author\/jdorrier\/\" rel=\"author\">Jason Dorrier<\/a> \u2014 SingularityHub<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P0\">There\u2019s something almost alchemical going on at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Scientists there have genetically transformed skin cells into heart cells and used them to 3D print mini-organs that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakehealth.edu\/News-Releases\/2015\/Body-on-a-Chip-Project-Update.htm\">beat just like your heart<\/a>. Another darker organoid fused to a mini-heart mimics your liver.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\">The work, developed by Anthony Atala and his Wake Forest team for the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakehealth.edu\/News-Releases\/2013\/Wake_Forest_Baptist_Leads_$24_million_Project_to_Develop_%E2%80%9CBody_on_a_Chip%E2%80%9D.htm\">Body on a Chip<\/a>\u201d project, aims to simulate bodily systems by <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/09\/25\/lego-like-blocks-connect-to-form-microfluidic-mini-laboratories\/\">microfluidically linking up<\/a> miniature organs\u2014hearts, livers, blood vessels, and lungs\u2014and testing new drug treatments and chemicals or studying the effects of viruses on them.<\/p>\n<p data-incom=\"P1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/04\/22\/theyre-alive-watch-these-mini-3d-printed-organs-beat-just-like-hearts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jason Dorrier \u2014 SingularityHub There\u2019s something almost alchemical going on at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Scientists there have genetically transformed skin cells into heart cells and used them to 3D print mini-organs that beat just like your heart. Another darker organoid fused to a mini-heart mimics your liver. The work, developed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioprinting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125","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=14125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55430,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14125\/revisions\/55430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}