{"id":221899,"date":"2025-09-15T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/3d-bioprinted-mini-placentas-could-transform-pregnancy-research"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:04:44","slug":"3d-bioprinted-mini-placentas-could-transform-pregnancy-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/3d-bioprinted-mini-placentas-could-transform-pregnancy-research","title":{"rendered":"3D bioprinted mini placentas could transform pregnancy research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-bioprinted-mini-placentas-could-transform-pregnancy-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pregnancy complications lead to more than 260,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/maternal+deaths\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">maternal deaths<\/a> and millions of infant deaths globally. One serious condition in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/pregnancy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pregnancy<\/a> linked to placental dysfunction is preeclampsia, which affects 5%\u20138% of pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-62996-0\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>, led by Associate Professor Lana McClements and first author Dr. Claire Richards, from the UTS School of Life Sciences, has just been published in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pregnancy complications lead to more than 260,000 maternal deaths and millions of infant deaths globally. One serious condition in pregnancy linked to placental dysfunction is preeclampsia, which affects 5%\u20138% of pregnancies. The study, led by Associate Professor Lana McClements and first author Dr. Claire Richards, from the UTS School of Life Sciences, has just been [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221899","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=221899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}