{"id":195169,"date":"2024-08-25T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-25T14:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/a-band-aid-for-the-heart-new-3d-printing-method-makes-this-and-much-more-possible"},"modified":"2024-08-25T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T14:22:24","slug":"a-band-aid-for-the-heart-new-3d-printing-method-makes-this-and-much-more-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/a-band-aid-for-the-heart-new-3d-printing-method-makes-this-and-much-more-possible","title":{"rendered":"A Band-Aid for the Heart? New 3D Printing Method makes this, and much more, possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-band-aid-for-the-heart-new-3d-printing-method-makes-this-and-much-more-possible.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists face a formidable challenge: Real tissues are often both strong and stretchable and vary in shape and size.<\/p>\n<p>A CU Boulder-led team, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, has taken a critical step toward cracking that code. They\u2019ve developed a new way to 3D print material that is at once elastic enough to withstand a heart\u2019s persistent beating, tough enough to endure the crushing load placed on joints, and easily shapable to fit a patient\u2019s unique defects.<\/p>\n<p>Better yet, it sticks easily to wet tissue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists face a formidable challenge: Real tissues are often both strong and stretchable and vary in shape and size. A CU Boulder-led team, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, has taken a critical step toward cracking that code. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195169","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}