{"id":213603,"date":"2025-05-09T01:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/in-vivo-3d-printing-using-sound-holds-promise-for-precise-drug-delivery-wound-healing-and-more"},"modified":"2025-05-09T01:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:10:15","slug":"in-vivo-3d-printing-using-sound-holds-promise-for-precise-drug-delivery-wound-healing-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/in-vivo-3d-printing-using-sound-holds-promise-for-precise-drug-delivery-wound-healing-and-more","title":{"rendered":"In vivo 3D printing using sound holds promise for precise drug delivery, wound healing and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-vivo-3d-printing-using-sound-holds-promise-for-precise-drug-delivery-wound-healing-and-more3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine that doctors could precisely print miniature capsules capable of delivering cells needed for tissue repair exactly where they are needed inside a beating heart.<\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists led by Caltech has taken a significant step toward that ultimate goal, having developed a method for 3D-printing polymers at specific locations deep within living animals. The technique relies on sound for localization and has already been used to print <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polymer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polymer<\/a> capsules for selective drug delivery as well as glue-like polymers to seal internal wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, scientists have used <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared light<\/a> to trigger polymerization, the linking of the basic units, or monomers, of polymers within living animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that doctors could precisely print miniature capsules capable of delivering cells needed for tissue repair exactly where they are needed inside a beating heart. A team of scientists led by Caltech has taken a significant step toward that ultimate goal, having developed a method for 3D-printing polymers at specific locations deep within living animals. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213603","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\/213603","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=213603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}