{"id":22220,"date":"2016-02-16T20:47:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T04:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/this-3d-bioprinter-creates-ears-muscles"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:51","slug":"this-3d-bioprinter-creates-ears-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/this-3d-bioprinter-creates-ears-muscles","title":{"rendered":"This 3D \u2018Bioprinter\u2019 Creates Ears, Muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-3d-bioprinter-creates-ears-muscles.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team at Wake Forest University has used a combination of living cells and a special gel to print out living human body parts \u2014 including ears, muscles and jawbones.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an advance on previous attempts, which either involved making a plastic scaffold and then trying to get cells to grow in and on it, or that printed out organ shapes that ended up being too floppy and dying.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/wake-forest-university-scientists-print-living-body-parts-n518981\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team at Wake Forest University has used a combination of living cells and a special gel to print out living human body parts \u2014 including ears, muscles and jawbones. It\u2019s an advance on previous attempts, which either involved making a plastic scaffold and then trying to get cells to grow in and on it, [\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-22220","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\/22220","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=22220"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68427,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22220\/revisions\/68427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}