{"id":150850,"date":"2022-11-23T00:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/3d-printed-breast-implants-this-alternative-to-silicon-regrows-breast-tissue-and-degrades-without-a-trace"},"modified":"2022-11-23T00:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T06:36:53","slug":"3d-printed-breast-implants-this-alternative-to-silicon-regrows-breast-tissue-and-degrades-without-a-trace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/3d-printed-breast-implants-this-alternative-to-silicon-regrows-breast-tissue-and-degrades-without-a-trace","title":{"rendered":"3D printed breast implants? This alternative to silicon regrows breast tissue and degrades without a trace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-breast-implants-this-alternative-to-silicon-regrows-breast-tissue-and-degrades-without-a-trace2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every year, 2 million people worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer. Most choose not to have their breasts reconstructed; in the UK, it is only about 30%. Now a handful of startups want to change that, armed with 3D-printed implants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, 2 million people worldwide are diagnosed with breast cancer. Most choose not to have their breasts reconstructed; in the UK, it is only about 30%. Now a handful of startups want to change that, armed with 3D-printed implants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150850","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}