{"id":70353,"date":"2017-06-12T08:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/nasa-to-take-cancer-fight-into-space-with-bioprinted-cells"},"modified":"2017-06-12T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:23:10","slug":"nasa-to-take-cancer-fight-into-space-with-bioprinted-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/nasa-to-take-cancer-fight-into-space-with-bioprinted-cells","title":{"rendered":"NASA to take cancer fight into space with bioprinted cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-to-take-cancer-fight-into-space-with-bioprinted-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has revealed plans to grow bioprinted cancer cells in space in a bid to advance cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>Utilizing the microgravity environment, NASA hopes to the cell structures will grow in a more natural spherical shape. Since, back on earth in vitro the cells have only able been able to grow in two-dimensional layers. However to harness the cells without the presence of gravity, NASA is hoping to employ magnets.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/nasa-take-cancer-fight-space-bioprinted-cells-115596\/?goal=0_695d5c73dc-68fc2bba41-64644177\">https:\/\/3dprintingindustry.com\/news\/nasa-take-cancer-fight-s...5;64644177<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has revealed plans to grow bioprinted cancer cells in space in a bid to advance cancer research. Utilizing the microgravity environment, NASA hopes to the cell structures will grow in a more natural spherical shape. Since, back on earth in vitro the cells have only able been able to grow in two-dimensional layers. However [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70353","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=70353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}