{"id":230747,"date":"2026-02-06T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nanoengineered-extrusion-aligned-tract-bioprinting-enables-functional-repair-of-spinal-cord-injuries"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:11:08","slug":"nanoengineered-extrusion-aligned-tract-bioprinting-enables-functional-repair-of-spinal-cord-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/nanoengineered-extrusion-aligned-tract-bioprinting-enables-functional-repair-of-spinal-cord-injuries","title":{"rendered":"Nanoengineered extrusion-aligned tract bioprinting enables functional repair of spinal cord injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoengineered-extrusion-aligned-tract-bioprinting-enables-functional-repair-of-spinal-cord-injuries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gu et al. present NEAT, a nanoengineered extrusion-aligned tract bioprinting strategy that fabricates aligned, human neural stem cell-laden collagen hydrogel constructs through shear-induced fibrillar organization. In a rat model of complete spinal cord transection, NEAT enables axonal reconnection and functional locomotor recovery, demonstrating its translational potential for spinal cord repair and neural tissue engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gu et al. present NEAT, a nanoengineered extrusion-aligned tract bioprinting strategy that fabricates aligned, human neural stem cell-laden collagen hydrogel constructs through shear-induced fibrillar organization. In a rat model of complete spinal cord transection, NEAT enables axonal reconnection and functional locomotor recovery, demonstrating its translational potential for spinal cord repair and neural tissue engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,1503,11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230747","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=230747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}