{"id":22270,"date":"2016-02-17T21:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T05:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-first-3d-bioprinter-that-can-print-body-parts-for-large-scale-human-implantation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:10:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:10:41","slug":"the-first-3d-bioprinter-that-can-print-body-parts-for-large-scale-human-implantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/the-first-3d-bioprinter-that-can-print-body-parts-for-large-scale-human-implantation","title":{"rendered":"The First 3D Bioprinter That Can Print Body Parts for Large Scale Human Implantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-first-3d-bioprinter-that-can-print-body-parts-for-large-scale-human-implantation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 10 years of development, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wakehealth.edu\/WFIRM\/\">Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine<\/a> has finally unveiled a 3D printer that can craft simple tissues, such as cartilage, into complex shapes suitable for implantation.<\/p>\n<p>The printer uses cartridges filled with biodegradable plastic and human cells bound in gel form, and it can grow muscle, cartilage, and even bone. When implanted into animals, these crafted tissues have been shown to survive and even thrive for an indefinite amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first [bioprinter] that can print tissue at the large scales relevant for human implantation,\u201d lead scientist behind the project, Anthony Atala, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/health\/a19443\/3d-printer-bone-cartilidge-and-muscle\/\">says in the release<\/a>. \u201cBasically, once we\u2019ve printed a structure, we can keep it alive for several weeks before we implant it. Now the next step is to test these [printed tissues] for safety so we can implant them in the future in patients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/first-3d-bioprinter-can-print-body-parts-large-scale-human-implantation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 10 years of development, the Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine has finally unveiled a 3D printer that can craft simple tissues, such as cartilage, into complex shapes suitable for implantation. The printer uses cartridges filled with biodegradable plastic and human cells bound in gel form, and it can grow muscle, cartilage, and even [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22270","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\/22270","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=22270"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68406,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22270\/revisions\/68406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}