{"id":30754,"date":"2016-10-04T23:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T06:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/doctors-can-now-3d-print-bones-on-demand-thanks-to-a-new-hyperelastic-material"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:31:33","slug":"doctors-can-now-3d-print-bones-on-demand-thanks-to-a-new-hyperelastic-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/doctors-can-now-3d-print-bones-on-demand-thanks-to-a-new-hyperelastic-material","title":{"rendered":"Doctors Can Now 3D-Print Bones On Demand, Thanks to a New \u201cHyperelastic\u201d Material"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctors-can-now-3d-print-bones-on-demand-thanks-to-a-new-hyperelastic-material.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Brief.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New 3D printed bones are \u2018hyperelastic,\u2019 making them more malleable during procedures. <\/li>\n<li>3D printers in hospitals could provide the hyperelastic bone ink, so surgeons could make implants in 24 hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>This best describes the new bone-mending technology developed at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois by Ramille Shah and her colleagues. They used ink made from a natural bone mineral called <a href=\"http:\/\/fluidinova.com\/hydroxyapatite-properties-uses-and-applications\" target=\"_blank\">hydroxyapatite<\/a>, mixed with PLGA, a mineral-binding polymer that makes the implants elastic.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/doctors-can-now-3d-print-bones-on-demand-thanks-to-a-new-hyperelastic-material\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/doctors-can-now-3d-print-bones-on-demand...-material\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief. New 3D printed bones are \u2018hyperelastic,\u2019 making them more malleable during procedures. 3D printers in hospitals could provide the hyperelastic bone ink, so surgeons could make implants in 24 hours. Remarkable. This best describes the new bone-mending technology developed at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois by Ramille Shah and her colleagues. They used [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30754","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\/30754","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=30754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49786,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30754\/revisions\/49786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}