{"id":89525,"date":"2019-04-15T08:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/israeli-researchers-print-3d-heart-using-patients-own-cells"},"modified":"2019-04-15T08:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T15:02:32","slug":"israeli-researchers-print-3d-heart-using-patients-own-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/israeli-researchers-print-3d-heart-using-patients-own-cells","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Researchers Print 3D Heart Using Patient\u2019s Own Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-researchers-print-3d-heart-using-patients-own-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Israeli researchers have printed a 3D heart using a patient\u2019s own cells, something they say could be used to patch diseased hearts \u2014 and possibly, full transplants.<\/p>\n<p>The heart the Tel Aviv University team printed in about three hours is too small for humans \u2014 about 2.5 centimeters, or the size of a rabbit\u2019s heart. But it\u2019s the first to be printed with all blood vessels, ventricles and chambers, using an ink made from the patient\u2019s own biological materials.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-04-15\/israeli-researchers-print-3d-heart-using-patient-s-own-cells\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli researchers have printed a 3D heart using a patient\u2019s own cells, something they say could be used to patch diseased hearts \u2014 and possibly, full transplants. The heart the Tel Aviv University team printed in about three hours is too small for humans \u2014 about 2.5 centimeters, or the size of a rabbit\u2019s heart. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89525","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=89525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}