{"id":19803,"date":"2015-12-04T22:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T06:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/3d-printers-can-now-churn-out-living-blood-vessels"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:29:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:29:36","slug":"3d-printers-can-now-churn-out-living-blood-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/3d-printers-can-now-churn-out-living-blood-vessels","title":{"rendered":"3D Printers Can Now Churn Out \u201cLiving\u201d Blood Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iKSrShvfH8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a breakthrough that could lead to printable organs and an enhanced understanding of human physiology, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Labs have 3D-printed functional blood vessels that look and function like the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>3D <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nbt\/journal\/v32\/n8\/full\/nbt.2958.html\" target=\"_blank\">bioprinters<\/a> are similar to conventional 3D printers, but instead of using inert materials, they use \u201cbio-ink:\u201d basic structural building blocks that are compatible with the human body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/3d-printers-can-now-churn-out-living-blood-vessels-1746249526?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_facebook&utm_source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough that could lead to printable organs and an enhanced understanding of human physiology, researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Labs have 3D-printed functional blood vessels that look and function like the real thing. 3D bioprinters are similar to conventional 3D printers, but instead of using inert materials, they use \u201cbio-ink:\u201d basic structural building [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803","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=19803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45027,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19803\/revisions\/45027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}