{"id":169649,"date":"2023-08-14T04:22:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/heart-organoids-tricked-out-with-nanowires-restored-heart-function-in-rats"},"modified":"2023-08-14T04:22:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T09:22:23","slug":"heart-organoids-tricked-out-with-nanowires-restored-heart-function-in-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/heart-organoids-tricked-out-with-nanowires-restored-heart-function-in-rats","title":{"rendered":"Heart Organoids Tricked Out With Nanowires Restored Heart Function in Rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/heart-organoids-tricked-out-with-nanowires-restored-heart-function-in-rats2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tiny, floating blobs of mini-hearts were straight out of Frankenstein. Made from a mixture of human stem cells and a sprinkle of silicon nanowires, the cyborg heart organoids bizarrely pumped away as they grew inside Petri dishes.<\/p>\n<p>When transplanted into rats with heart injuries they lost their spherical shape, spreading out into damaged regions and connecting with the hosts\u2019 own heart cells. Within a month, the rats regained much of their heart function.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not science fiction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adf2898\">A new study<\/a> this month linked digital electrical components with biological cells into a cyborg organoid that, when transplanted into animal models of heart failure, melded with and repaired living, beating hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tiny, floating blobs of mini-hearts were straight out of Frankenstein. Made from a mixture of human stem cells and a sprinkle of silicon nanowires, the cyborg heart organoids bizarrely pumped away as they grew inside Petri dishes. When transplanted into rats with heart injuries they lost their spherical shape, spreading out into damaged regions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169649","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}