{"id":18754,"date":"2015-10-26T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T17:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/how-to-3-d-print-a-heart"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:41","slug":"how-to-3-d-print-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/how-to-3-d-print-a-heart","title":{"rendered":"How to 3-D print a heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-3-d-print-a-heart.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Coronary artery structure being 3-D bioprinted (credit: Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carnegie Mellon<\/a> scientists are creating cutting-edge technology that could one day solve the shortage of heart transplants, which are currently needed to repair damaged organs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to take MRI images of coronary arteries and 3-D images of embryonic hearts and 3-D bioprint them with unprecedented resolution and quality out of very soft materials like collagens, alginates and fibrins,\u201d said <a title=\"Adam Feinberg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/engineering\/materials\/people\/faculty\/bios\/feinberg.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Feinberg<\/a>, an associate professor of <a title=\"Materials Science and Engineering Department\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/engineering\/materials\/\" target=\"_blank\">Materials Science and Engineering<\/a> and <a title=\"Biomedical Engineering Department\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bme.cmu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Biomedical Engineering<\/a> at Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/how-to-3-d-print-a-heart\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronary artery structure being 3-D bioprinted (credit: Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering) Carnegie Mellon scientists are creating cutting-edge technology that could one day solve the shortage of heart transplants, which are currently needed to repair damaged organs. \u201cWe\u2019ve been able to take MRI images of coronary arteries and 3-D images of embryonic hearts and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18754","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69307,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18754\/revisions\/69307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}