{"id":90119,"date":"2019-04-29T17:02:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/earth-shattering-drone-delivers-kidney-for-transplant-over-baltimore"},"modified":"2019-04-29T17:02:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T00:02:23","slug":"earth-shattering-drone-delivers-kidney-for-transplant-over-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/earth-shattering-drone-delivers-kidney-for-transplant-over-baltimore","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Earth-shattering\u2019: Drone delivers kidney for transplant over Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RNYCCbCpAlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The drone delivery of a kidney recently used for an organ transplant in Baltimore is being characterized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/eng.umd.edu\/news\/story\/pioneering-breakthrough-unmanned-aircraft-delivers-organ-for-successful-kidney-transplant-in-Maryland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">University of Maryland as a \u201cpioneering breakthrough\u201d<\/a> advancement in human medicine and aviation technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s huge. We knew from the very first time that we met with Dr. (Joseph) Scalea, and he suggested the idea of what he wanted to do \u2014 we knew it would be earth-shattering and life-changing, and it really has become that,\u201d Matthew Scassero, director of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site at the University of Maryland, told WTOP.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned aircraft system\u2019s flight on April 19 through the city of Baltimore occurred at about 12:30 a.m. and was less than 3 miles, but represents a huge first step.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wtop.com\/health-fitness\/2019\/04\/earth-shattering-drone-delivers-kidney-for-transplant-over-baltimore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drone delivery of a kidney recently used for an organ transplant in Baltimore is being characterized by the University of Maryland as a \u201cpioneering breakthrough\u201d advancement in human medicine and aviation technology. \u201cIt\u2019s huge. We knew from the very first time that we met with Dr. (Joseph) Scalea, and he suggested the idea of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90119","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}