{"id":243767,"date":"2026-09-08T01:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chinaled-team-uses-3dprinted-male-sex-organ-for-ed-treatment-in-world-first"},"modified":"2026-09-08T01:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:49:12","slug":"chinaled-team-uses-3dprinted-male-sex-organ-for-ed-treatment-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/chinaled-team-uses-3dprinted-male-sex-organ-for-ed-treatment-in-world-first","title":{"rendered":"Chinaled team uses 3Dprinted male sex organ for ED treatment in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinaled-team-uses-3dprinted-male-sex-organ-for-ed-treatment-in-world-first.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/week-asia\/health-environment\/article\/3301945\/singapore-bans-malaysian-coffee-product-containing-erectile-dysfunction-drug?module=inline&pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\"> ED<\/a> affects more than 40 per cent of men <a target=\"_self\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/health-wellness\/article\/3233839\/why-erectile-dysfunction-means-heart-attack-could-be-close?module=inline&pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\"> aged 40 and above<\/a>. The team of researchers used hydrogel-based bioinks to develop a 3D-printed penile implant system able to anatomically replicate all functional components of natural erectile tissue.<\/p>\n<p>The animal subjects \u2013 pigs and rabbits \u2013 exhibited restored erectile capacity post-implantation, with reproductive success rates surging from 25 per cent in the control group to 100 per cent in the treatment group, the team said.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the landmark study were published in Nature Biomedical Engineering on March 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ED affects more than 40 per cent of men aged 40 and above. The team of researchers used hydrogel-based bioinks to develop a 3D-printed penile implant system able to anatomically replicate all functional components of natural erectile tissue. The animal subjects \u2013 pigs and rabbits \u2013 exhibited restored erectile capacity post-implantation, with reproductive success rates [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,38,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243767","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}