{"id":84704,"date":"2018-11-14T19:28:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ears-grown-from-apples-the-promise-of-plants-for-engineering-human-tissue"},"modified":"2018-11-14T19:28:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T03:28:10","slug":"ears-grown-from-apples-the-promise-of-plants-for-engineering-human-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/ears-grown-from-apples-the-promise-of-plants-for-engineering-human-tissue","title":{"rendered":"Ears Grown From Apples? The Promise of Plants for Engineering Human Tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ears-grown-from-apples-the-promise-of-plants-for-engineering-human-tissue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Inspiration for game-changing science can seemingly come from anywhere. A moldy bacterial plate gave us the first antibiotic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/the-real-story-behind-the-worlds-first-antibiotic\">penicillin<\/a>. Zapping yeast with a platinum electrode led to a powerful chemotherapy drug, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/research\/progress\/discovery\/cisplatin\">cisplatin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Dr. Andrew Pelling at the University of Ottawa, his radical idea came from a sci-fi cult classic called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Little_Shop_of_Horrors\"><em>The Little Shop of Horrors<\/em><\/a>. Specifically, he was intrigued by the movie\u2019s main antagonist, a man-eating plant called Aubrey 2.<\/p>\n<p>What you have here is a plant-like creature with mammalian features, said Pelling at the <a href=\"https:\/\/exponential.singularityu.org\/medicine\/?utm_medium=web-page&utm_source=hub&utm_campaign=fy18m11-eip&utm_content=11-13-2018\">Exponential Medicine conference<\/a> in San Diego last week. \u201cSo we started wondering: can we grow this in the lab?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/11\/13\/an-ear-grown-from-apples-why-the-key-to-tissue-engineering-could-be-plants\/\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/11\/13\/an-ear-grown-from-appl...be-plants\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspiration for game-changing science can seemingly come from anywhere. A moldy bacterial plate gave us the first antibiotic, penicillin. Zapping yeast with a platinum electrode led to a powerful chemotherapy drug, cisplatin. For Dr. Andrew Pelling at the University of Ottawa, his radical idea came from a sci-fi cult classic called The Little Shop of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84704","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}