{"id":35043,"date":"2017-03-04T08:02:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T16:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/californian-researchers-3d-print-functioning-blood-vessels"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:26","slug":"californian-researchers-3d-print-functioning-blood-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/californian-researchers-3d-print-functioning-blood-vessels","title":{"rendered":"Californian researchers 3D print functioning blood vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/californian-researchers-3d-print-functioning-blood-vessels.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the <a href=\"https:\/\/ucsd.edu\/\">University of California, San Diego<\/a> have successfully 3D printed a framework of functional blood vessels. Blood vessel networks are important in transporting blood, nutrients and waste around the human body.<\/p>\n<p>The research team employed a 3D bioprinting process involving hydrogel and endothelial cells. Endothelial are the form of cells that make up the inner lining of blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the research was Shaochen Chen, who explains the motivation of the project.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/californian-researchers-3d-print-functioning-blood-vessels-107088\/\">https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/californian-researchers-...ls-107088\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have successfully 3D printed a framework of functional blood vessels. Blood vessel networks are important in transporting blood, nutrients and waste around the human body. The research team employed a 3D bioprinting process involving hydrogel and endothelial cells. Endothelial are the form of cells that make up [\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-35043","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\/35043","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=35043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58506,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043\/revisions\/58506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}