{"id":178262,"date":"2023-12-14T05:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/tiny-biobots-surprise-their-creators-by-healing-wound"},"modified":"2023-12-14T05:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T11:23:39","slug":"tiny-biobots-surprise-their-creators-by-healing-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/tiny-biobots-surprise-their-creators-by-healing-wound","title":{"rendered":"Tiny biobots surprise their creators by healing wound"},"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\/aQRBCCjaYGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tiny made from human windpipe cells encouraged damaged neural tissue to repair itself in a lab experiment \u2014 potentially foreshadowing a future in which creations like this patrol our bodies, healing damage, delivering drugs, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The background: <\/strong>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/advs.202303575\">study<\/a> published in 2020, researchers at Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) harvested and incubated skin cells from frog embryos until they were tiny balls.<\/p>\n<p>They then sculpted the spheres into specific shapes \u2014 dictated by an algorithm \u2014 and added layers of cardiac stem cells to them in precise locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny made from human windpipe cells encouraged damaged neural tissue to repair itself in a lab experiment \u2014 potentially foreshadowing a future in which creations like this patrol our bodies, healing damage, delivering drugs, and more. The background: In a study published in 2020, researchers at Tufts University and the University of Vermont (UVM) harvested [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178262","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\/714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}