{"id":149866,"date":"2022-11-10T07:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-create-device-to-replicate-conditions-in-blood-vessels-after-grafts"},"modified":"2022-11-10T07:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T13:22:20","slug":"researchers-create-device-to-replicate-conditions-in-blood-vessels-after-grafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/researchers-create-device-to-replicate-conditions-in-blood-vessels-after-grafts","title":{"rendered":"Researchers create device to replicate conditions in blood vessels after grafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-create-device-to-replicate-conditions-in-blood-vessels-after-grafts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tohid Didar and Jeff Weitz had a solution, but they also had a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Didar, an associate professor of engineering and Weitz, a hematologist, professor of medicine and executive director of the Thrombosis &amp; Atherosclerosis Research Institute, had collaborated to create a novel and highly promising material to improve the success of vascular grafts, but they needed a better way to test how well it worked.<\/p>\n<p>Their revolutionary idea was an engineered non-stick surface combined with biological components that can repel all but a targeted group of cells \u2014 those that form the natural lining of the body\u2019s veins and arteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tohid Didar and Jeff Weitz had a solution, but they also had a problem. Didar, an associate professor of engineering and Weitz, a hematologist, professor of medicine and executive director of the Thrombosis &amp; Atherosclerosis Research Institute, had collaborated to create a novel and highly promising material to improve the success of vascular grafts, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149866","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}