{"id":34403,"date":"2017-02-11T02:23:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T10:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/self-driving-cars-will-create-organ-shortage-can-science-meet-demand"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:31:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:31:26","slug":"self-driving-cars-will-create-organ-shortage-can-science-meet-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/self-driving-cars-will-create-organ-shortage-can-science-meet-demand","title":{"rendered":"Self-driving cars will create organ shortage \u2014 can science meet demand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-driving-cars-will-create-organ-shortage-can-science-meet-demand.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It looks like Self Driving cars may create a US organ shortage that finally acts as the Kick in the Ass to force stem cell generated organs on to the market. Enough of the \u2018in the future\u2019 we might have these Nonsesne.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Science, however, can offer better a better solution.<\/p>\n<p>The waiting lists for donor organs are long \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/optn.transplant.hrsa.gov\/\">120,000 people<\/a> on a given day \u2014 and ever increasing. With fewer donor organs to go around, researchers are working on other ways to get people the parts they need. With help from 3D printing and other bioengineering technologies, we will eventually be able to grow our own organs and stop relying on donors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/robots-vs-cancer-how-tech-tackling-biden-s-moonshot-n684041\">How Technology is Tackling Joe Biden\u2019s Cancer Moonshot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s like a race in which there\u2019s multiple different players, but no matter which one of them winds up winning, it\u2019s good,\u201d says Ali Khademhosseini, a bioengineer at Harvard Medical School.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/can-science-curb-donor-organ-shortage-self-driving-cars-will-n719386?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/can-science-curb-donor-o...d_nn_fb_ma<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Self Driving cars may create a US organ shortage that finally acts as the Kick in the Ass to force stem cell generated organs on to the market. Enough of the \u2018in the future\u2019 we might have these Nonsesne. Science, however, can offer better a better solution. The waiting lists for donor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,11,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34403","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34403"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58766,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34403\/revisions\/58766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}