{"id":28013,"date":"2016-07-19T05:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/living-hip-grown-in-lab-genetically-engineered-to-stop-arthritis"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:32:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:32:59","slug":"living-hip-grown-in-lab-genetically-engineered-to-stop-arthritis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/living-hip-grown-in-lab-genetically-engineered-to-stop-arthritis","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Living hip\u2019 grown in lab genetically engineered to stop arthritis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/living-hip-grown-in-lab-genetically-engineered-to-stop-arthritis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arthritis sufferers have been offered new hope after scientists grew a \u2018living hip\u2019 in the lab which not only replaces worn cartilage but stops painful joints returning.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the US have used stem cells to grow cartilage in the exact shape of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/04\/27\/hip-replacement-surgery-denied-to-thousands-each-year-despite-nh\/\">hip<\/a> joint while also genetically engineering the tissue to release anti-inflammatory molecules to fend off the return of arthritis.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to implant the perfectly shaped cartilage around the joint to extend its life before arthritis has caused too much damage to the bone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/07\/18\/living-hip-grown-in-lab-genetically-engineered-to-stop-arthritis\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/2016\/07\/18\/living-hip-gro...arthritis\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthritis sufferers have been offered new hope after scientists grew a \u2018living hip\u2019 in the lab which not only replaces worn cartilage but stops painful joints returning. Researchers in the US have used stem cells to grow cartilage in the exact shape of a hip joint while also genetically engineering the tissue to release anti-inflammatory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28013","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=28013"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66863,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28013\/revisions\/66863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}