{"id":195308,"date":"2024-08-27T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/united-therapeutics-and-3d-systems-shoot-for-3d-printed-lung-scaffold-trials-within-five-years"},"modified":"2024-08-27T20:30:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:30:09","slug":"united-therapeutics-and-3d-systems-shoot-for-3d-printed-lung-scaffold-trials-within-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/united-therapeutics-and-3d-systems-shoot-for-3d-printed-lung-scaffold-trials-within-five-years","title":{"rendered":"United Therapeutics and 3D Systems shoot for 3D printed lung scaffold trials within five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/united-therapeutics-and-3d-systems-shoot-for-3d-printed-lung-scaffold-trials-within-five-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biotechnology firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unither.com\/\">United Therapeutics<\/a> has showcased what it claims to be the \u201cworld\u2019s most complex 3D printed object\u201d in partnership with 3D printer manufacturer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dsystems.com\/\">3D Systems<\/a> at the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/lifeitself.health\/\">LIFE ITSELF<\/a> conference in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>The partners have produced a 3D printed human lung scaffold capable of demonstrating gas exchange in animal models, and are now planning to cellularize the scaffold with a patient\u2019s own stem cells to create tolerable, transplantable human lungs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast week, it was exciting to show the public our 3D printed human lung scaffold, but we\u2019re thrilled to share that our 3D printed lung scaffolds are now demonstrating gas exchange in animal models,\u201d said Dr. Martine Rothblatt, United Therapeutics\u2019 Chairperson and CEO. \u201cWe are regularly printing lung scaffolds as accurately as driving across the United States and not deviating from a course by more than the width of a human hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biotechnology firm United Therapeutics has showcased what it claims to be the \u201cworld\u2019s most complex 3D printed object\u201d in partnership with 3D printer manufacturer 3D Systems at the recent LIFE ITSELF conference in San Diego. The partners have produced a 3D printed human lung scaffold capable of demonstrating gas exchange in animal models, and are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195308","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}