{"id":86718,"date":"2019-01-16T15:42:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-grow-perfect-human-blood-vessels-in-a-petri-dish"},"modified":"2019-01-16T15:42:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:42:20","slug":"scientists-grow-perfect-human-blood-vessels-in-a-petri-dish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/scientists-grow-perfect-human-blood-vessels-in-a-petri-dish","title":{"rendered":"Scientists grow perfect human blood vessels in a petri dish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-grow-perfect-human-blood-vessels-in-a-petri-dish2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough engineering technology, outlined in a new study published today in <em>Nature<\/em>, dramatically advances research of vascular diseases like diabetes, identifying a key pathway to potentially prevent changes to blood vessels \u2014 a major cause of death and morbidity among those with diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>An organoid is a three-dimensional structure grown from stem cells that mimics an organ and can be used to study aspects of that organ in a petri dish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to build human blood vessels as organoids from stem cells is a game changer,\u201d said the study\u2019s senior author Josef Penninger, the Canada 150 Research Chair in Functional Genetics, director of the Life Sciences Institute at UBC and founding director of the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/01\/190116130820.htm\">https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2019\/01\/190116130820.htm<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The breakthrough engineering technology, outlined in a new study published today in Nature, dramatically advances research of vascular diseases like diabetes, identifying a key pathway to potentially prevent changes to blood vessels \u2014 a major cause of death and morbidity among those with diabetes. An organoid is a three-dimensional structure grown from stem cells that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718","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\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}