{"id":20418,"date":"2016-01-03T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T03:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/cartilage-growing-to-rebuild-body-parts-within-three-years"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:16:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:16:51","slug":"cartilage-growing-to-rebuild-body-parts-within-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/cartilage-growing-to-rebuild-body-parts-within-three-years","title":{"rendered":"Cartilage growing to rebuild body parts \u2018within three years\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cartilage-growing-to-rebuild-body-parts-within-three-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Patients needing surgery to reconstruct body parts such as noses and ears could soon have treatment using cartilage which has been grown in a lab.<\/p>\n<p>The process involves growing someone\u2019s cells in an incubator and then mixing them with a liquid which is 3D printed into the jelly-like shape needed.<\/p>\n<p>It is then put back in an incubator to grow again until it is ready.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-wales-south-west-wales-35140916?SThisFB\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients needing surgery to reconstruct body parts such as noses and ears could soon have treatment using cartilage which has been grown in a lab. The process involves growing someone\u2019s cells in an incubator and then mixing them with a liquid which is 3D printed into the jelly-like shape needed. It is then put back [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20418","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\/20418","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=20418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68925,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20418\/revisions\/68925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}