{"id":18383,"date":"2015-10-13T14:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/organovo-uniquest-partner-in-patenting-bioprinting-actual-kidney-tissue"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:21:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:21:34","slug":"organovo-uniquest-partner-in-patenting-bioprinting-actual-kidney-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/organovo-uniquest-partner-in-patenting-bioprinting-actual-kidney-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Organovo &amp; Uniquest Partner in Patenting &amp; Bioprinting Actual Kidney Tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organovo-uniquest-partner-in-patenting-bioprinting-actual-kidney-tissue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organovo-uniquest-partner-in-patenting-bioprinting-actual-kidney-tissue2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-100500 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/organovo-uniquest-partner-in-patenting-bioprinting-actual-kidney-tissue2.jpg\" alt=\"Organovo_Logo\" width=\"410\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.organovo.com\/\">Organovo<\/a> is one of the most fascinating companies that we follow\u2013and quite continually\u2013as the dynamic company has kept the momentum rolling with one scientific breakthrough after another.<\/p>\n<p>Famous for the design and creation of functional human tissues for medical applications, we\u2019ve recently also been following Organovo and other partnerships in <a href=\"http:\/\/3dprint.com\/60245\/organovo-merck-3d-print\/\">researching human tissue<\/a> as well as offering the first <a href=\"http:\/\/3dprint.com\/93493\/organovos-bioprinting-future\/\">3D bioprinted liver product<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just been recently announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/uniquest.com.au\/\">Uniquest<\/a> signed a worldwide licensing agreement with Organovo to patent kidney cells from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Professor Melissa Little and her team at Uniquest have actually been able to grow kidney tissue which should prove to be helpful in not only drug screening but also disease modeling and cell therapy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3dprint.com\/100499\/organovo-uniquest-kidney\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organovo is one of the most fascinating companies that we follow\u2013and quite continually\u2013as the dynamic company has kept the momentum rolling with one scientific breakthrough after another. Famous for the design and creation of functional human tissues for medical applications, we\u2019ve recently also been following Organovo and other partnerships in researching human tissue as well [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383","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\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18383"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69376,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18383\/revisions\/69376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}