{"id":201187,"date":"2024-12-10T14:37:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-create-first-ever-blood-generating-heart-organoid"},"modified":"2024-12-10T14:37:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T20:37:01","slug":"scientists-create-first-ever-blood-generating-heart-organoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-create-first-ever-blood-generating-heart-organoid","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create first-ever blood-generating heart organoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-first-ever-blood-generating-heart-organoid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How do human organs develop and what happens to them when they become diseased? To answer these questions, researchers are increasingly focusing on so-called organoids. These mini-organs, just a few millimeters in size, consist of groups of cells cultivated in the laboratory that can form organ-like structures.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to embryonic development, organoids make it possible to investigate the interaction of cells in three-dimensional space\u2014for example in metabolic processes or disease mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p>The production of organoids is tricky; the required nutrients, <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/growth+factors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">growth factors<\/a> and signaling molecules must be added in a specific order and at specific times according to a precise schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do human organs develop and what happens to them when they become diseased? To answer these questions, researchers are increasingly focusing on so-called organoids. These mini-organs, just a few millimeters in size, consist of groups of cells cultivated in the laboratory that can form organ-like structures. Similar to embryonic development, organoids make it possible [\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-201187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201187","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=201187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}