{"id":90543,"date":"2019-05-09T23:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T06:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-progress-in-the-biggest-challenge-with-3d-printed-organs"},"modified":"2019-05-09T23:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T06:22:24","slug":"new-progress-in-the-biggest-challenge-with-3d-printed-organs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/new-progress-in-the-biggest-challenge-with-3d-printed-organs","title":{"rendered":"New Progress in the Biggest Challenge With 3D Printed Organs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-progress-in-the-biggest-challenge-with-3d-printed-organs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re tantalizingly close to growing organs in the lab, but the biggest remaining challenge has been creating the fine networks of blood vessels required to keep them alive. Now researchers have shown that a common food dye could solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>In the US there are currently more than 100,000 people on organ transplant waiting lists. Even if you\u2019re lucky enough to receive a replacement, you face a lifetime on immunosuppressant drugs. That\u2019s why scientists have long dreamed of growing new organs from patients\u2019 own cells, which could simultaneously tackle the shortage and the risk of organ rejection.<\/p>\n<p>The field of tissue engineering has seen <a href=\"https:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/content\/articles\/2016\/07\/engineering-the-stuff-of-life\/\">plenty of progress<\/a>. Lab-grown skin has been medically available for decades, and more recently stem cells have been used to seed scaffolds\u2014either built form synthetic materials or made by stripping cells from natural support structures\u2014to reproduce more complex biological tissue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2019\/05\/07\/new-progress-in-the-biggest-challenge-with-3d-printed-organs\/#sm.0000uug2rjz7bczfshn28l76htgts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re tantalizingly close to growing organs in the lab, but the biggest remaining challenge has been creating the fine networks of blood vessels required to keep them alive. Now researchers have shown that a common food dye could solve the problem. In the US there are currently more than 100,000 people on organ transplant waiting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90543","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=90543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}