{"id":238753,"date":"2026-06-11T10:03:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/3d-printed-silk-implant-successfully-regrows-knee-cartilage-in-rats"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:03:59","slug":"3d-printed-silk-implant-successfully-regrows-knee-cartilage-in-rats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/3d-printed-silk-implant-successfully-regrows-knee-cartilage-in-rats","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed silk implant successfully regrows knee cartilage in rats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-silk-implant-successfully-regrows-knee-cartilage-in-rats.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have successfully regenerated healthy knee cartilage in an osteoarthritic joint using a 3D-printed silk implant laced with a targeted drug, offering hope for a permanent cure to the debilitating joint disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have successfully regenerated healthy knee cartilage in an osteoarthritic joint using a 3D-printed silk implant laced with a targeted drug, offering hope for a permanent cure to the debilitating joint disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238753","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\/238753","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}