{"id":19074,"date":"2015-11-04T01:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/australian-researchers-to-3d-print-with-stem-cells-for-cranial-reconstruction"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:20:02","slug":"australian-researchers-to-3d-print-with-stem-cells-for-cranial-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/australian-researchers-to-3d-print-with-stem-cells-for-cranial-reconstruction","title":{"rendered":"Australian Researchers to 3D Print with Stem Cells for Cranial Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-researchers-to-3d-print-with-stem-cells-for-cranial-reconstruction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain is a fragile and powerful tool, and is also fully dependent on a sturdy skull to keep it secure and intact. Unfortunately for some, there is a need for cranial reconstruction on people who were either born with a skull-related deficiency or critically injured in the head area. 3D printing has shown itself to be a potential game-changer in this regard; we have already witnessed successful titanium mesh skull replacements <a href=\"http:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/2014\/08\/29\/chinese-farmers-skull-restored-3d-printed-titanium-mesh\/\" target=\"_blank\">for one Chinese farmer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/2015\/07\/20\/three-year-old-receives-live-saving-3d-printed-implant-skull-implant\/\" target=\"_blank\">even a three-year-old girl born with congenital hydrocephalus<\/a>. Now, researchers out of Western Australia are developing a new advanced 3D printing method that involves reconstructing the human skull from stem cell cultures.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-researchers-to-3d-print-with-stem-cells-for-cranial-reconstruction2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/australian-researchers-to-3d-print-with-stem-cells-for-cranial-reconstruction2.jpg\" alt=\"3dprinting_rph\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The project, which is taking place within the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rph.wa.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Perth Hospital<\/a> and is being funded by the State Government, will provide their patients with damaged or surgically removed skull fragments with a high-quality cranial reconstruction surgery. The 3D printed stem cell-based skull replacement can potentially increase the success rate and the post-surgical quality of life of patients who require this intensive surgery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/2015\/11\/03\/australian-researchers-to-3d-print-with-stem-cells-for-cranial-reconstruction\/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=3DPI%252BFacebook\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain is a fragile and powerful tool, and is also fully dependent on a sturdy skull to keep it secure and intact. Unfortunately for some, there is a need for cranial reconstruction on people who were either born with a skull-related deficiency or critically injured in the head area. 3D printing has shown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074","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=19074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69242,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions\/69242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}