{"id":79097,"date":"2018-05-26T07:02:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/this-3d-printer-can-help-grow-organs-with-scaffolding-made-out-of-sugar"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:02:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:02:34","slug":"this-3d-printer-can-help-grow-organs-with-scaffolding-made-out-of-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/this-3d-printer-can-help-grow-organs-with-scaffolding-made-out-of-sugar","title":{"rendered":"This 3D Printer Can Help Grow Organs With Scaffolding Made Out of Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-3d-printer-can-help-grow-organs-with-scaffolding-made-out-of-sugar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sugar, that amazingly sweet treat some of us just can\u2019t get enough of, has long been the fascination of children (and those with a child-like sweet tooth).<\/p>\n<p>Its ability to be melted down into a glass-like substance enables confectionery artists to create tasty displays worthy of museums, or being served as a <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/worlds-first-3d-printing-restaurant-to-open-in-london\/\">3D printed dessert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the same properties which make sugar so wonderful for cooking and designing also make it great for science.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-developed-this-new-printer-to-make-dis-solvable-sugar-scaffolds-for-growing-organs?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Daily+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=7c7e11b594-MAILCHIMP_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fe5632fb09-7c7e11b594-365887529\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-developed-this-new-p...;365887529<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugar, that amazingly sweet treat some of us just can\u2019t get enough of, has long been the fascination of children (and those with a child-like sweet tooth). Its ability to be melted down into a glass-like substance enables confectionery artists to create tasty displays worthy of museums, or being served as a 3D printed dessert. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79097","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\/79097","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=79097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}