{"id":163022,"date":"2023-04-29T13:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-built-a-machine-from-lego-that-can-grow-human-skin"},"modified":"2023-04-29T13:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T18:26:06","slug":"scientists-built-a-machine-from-lego-that-can-grow-human-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/scientists-built-a-machine-from-lego-that-can-grow-human-skin","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Built a Machine From Lego That Can Grow Human Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0i3WqusoWMI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sourcing human tissue samples for biological investigations isn\u2019t always easy. While they are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcrm.org\/ethical-science\/animal-testing-and-alternatives\/human-tissue-research\">ethically obtained<\/a> through organ donation or from tissue that\u2019s removed during surgical procedures, scientists are finding them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7415886\/\">increasingly difficult to get hold of<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not just because there\u2019s a limited supply of human tissue samples. There\u2019s also restricted availability of the specific size and type of tissue samples needed for the many projects taking place at any given time.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why we decided to address the issue by building our own low-cost, easily accessible printer capable of creating human tissue samples using one of the world\u2019s most popular toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourcing human tissue samples for biological investigations isn\u2019t always easy. While they are ethically obtained through organ donation or from tissue that\u2019s removed during surgical procedures, scientists are finding them increasingly difficult to get hold of. And it\u2019s not just because there\u2019s a limited supply of human tissue samples. There\u2019s also restricted availability of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163022","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}