{"id":14742,"date":"2015-06-09T03:58:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=14742"},"modified":"2015-06-09T03:58:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T10:58:49","slug":"worlds-first-biolimb-by-akshat-rathi-quartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/worlds-first-biolimb-by-akshat-rathi-quartz","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first biolimb \u2026 By Akshat Rathi | Quartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p143bISuEJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The idea is simple. First, they take an arm from a dead rat and put it through a process of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3084613\/\" target=\"_blank\">decellularization<\/a> using detergents. This leaves behind a white scaffold. The scaffold is key because no artificial reconstructions come close to replicating the intricacies of a natural one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/422199\/worlds-first-biolimb-scientists-are-growing-rat-arms-in-petri-dishes\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea is simple. First, they take an arm from a dead rat and put it through a process of decellularization using detergents. This leaves behind a white scaffold. The scaffold is key because no artificial reconstructions come close to replicating the intricacies of a natural one. Read more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,1628,32,30,20,412,77,1524,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-biotech-medical","category-dna","category-education","category-ethics","category-futurism","category-genetics","category-hacking","category-hardware","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742","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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}