{"id":22125,"date":"2016-02-15T12:46:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/3d-bioprinter-can-add-vessels-to-artificial-body-parts"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:55:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:55:46","slug":"3d-bioprinter-can-add-vessels-to-artificial-body-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/3d-bioprinter-can-add-vessels-to-artificial-body-parts","title":{"rendered":"3D bioprinter can add vessels to artificial body parts"},"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\/4nqw1yjyKEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say they\u2019ve developed a 3-D bioprinter that can create artificial body parts with ready-made channels for getting nutrients and oxygen to the implanted cells. If the technology can be perfected, the device could solve one of the biggest obstacles to creating 3D-printed organs: how to nourish masses of manufactured tissue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt can fabricate stable, human-scale tissue of any shape,\u201d Anthony Atala, director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakehealth.edu\/wfirm\">Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine<\/a> in North Carolina, said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2016-02\/wfbm-spf021116.php\">news release<\/a>. \u201cWith further development, this technology could potentially be used to print living tissue and organ structures for surgical implantation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Atala and his colleagues describe their experiments with the bioprinter, known as the Integrated Tissue-Organ Printing System or ITOP, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nbt\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nbt.3413.html\">study published today by Nature Biotechnology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekwire.com\/2016\/3-d-bioprinter-makes-room-blood-vessels-artificial-body-parts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say they\u2019ve developed a 3-D bioprinter that can create artificial body parts with ready-made channels for getting nutrients and oxygen to the implanted cells. If the technology can be perfected, the device could solve one of the biggest obstacles to creating 3D-printed organs: how to nourish masses of manufactured tissue. \u201cIt can fabricate stable, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62870,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions\/62870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}