{"id":32246,"date":"2016-11-28T01:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/bioprinting-is-one-step-closer-to-making-a-human-kidney"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:01:11","slug":"bioprinting-is-one-step-closer-to-making-a-human-kidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/bioprinting-is-one-step-closer-to-making-a-human-kidney","title":{"rendered":"Bioprinting Is One Step Closer to Making a Human Kidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bioprinting-is-one-step-closer-to-making-a-human-kidney.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bioprinting has been all over the news in the past several years with headline-worthy breakthroughs like printed <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2015\/05\/24\/loreal-goes-after-3d-printed-human-skin-to-test-beauty-products\/\">human skin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/07\/08\/watch-this-amazing-3d-bioprinter-make-bones-from-scratch\/\">synthetic bones<\/a>, and even a fully functional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/3d-printed-thyroid-presented-at-biofabrication-2015\/\">mouse thyroid glan<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/3d-printed-thyroid-presented-at-biofabrication-2015\/\">d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>3D printing paved the way for bioprinting thanks to the printers\u2019 unique ability to recreate human tissue structures; their software can be written to \u2018stack\u2019 cells in precise patterns as directed by a digital model, and they can produce tissue in just hours and make numerous identical samples.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the progress in bioprinting, however, more complex human organs continue to elude scientists, and resting near the top of the \u2018more complex\u2019 list are the kidneys.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/27\/bioprinting-is-one-step-closer-to-making-a-human-kidney\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5a7e1d4167-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-5a7e1d4167-57450241\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/11\/27\/bioprinting-is-one-step...5;57450241<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bioprinting has been all over the news in the past several years with headline-worthy breakthroughs like printed human skin, synthetic bones, and even a fully functional mouse thyroid gland. 3D printing paved the way for bioprinting thanks to the printers\u2019 unique ability to recreate human tissue structures; their software can be written to \u2018stack\u2019 cells [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1503,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65692,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32246\/revisions\/65692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}