{"id":91423,"date":"2019-05-29T17:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T00:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/these-scientists-are-3d-printing-new-body-parts-for-athletes"},"modified":"2019-05-29T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T00:23:19","slug":"these-scientists-are-3d-printing-new-body-parts-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/these-scientists-are-3d-printing-new-body-parts-for-athletes","title":{"rendered":"These Scientists Are 3D-Printing New Body Parts for Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-scientists-are-3d-printing-new-body-parts-for-athletes2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of bioengineers has successfully 3D-printed tissues they believe doctors could one day implant into patients to help heal the knee, ankle, and elbow injuries that have ended the careers of countless athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this will be a powerful tool to help people with common sports injuries,\u201d Rice University researcher Sean Bittner said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rice.edu\/2019\/03\/28\/3d-printed-tissues-may-keep-athletes-in-action\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> \u2014 though the impact of the group\u2019s work could extend far beyond the turf or pitch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/scientists-3d-printed-tissues-athletes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of bioengineers has successfully 3D-printed tissues they believe doctors could one day implant into patients to help heal the knee, ankle, and elbow injuries that have ended the careers of countless athletes. \u201cI think this will be a powerful tool to help people with common sports injuries,\u201d Rice University researcher Sean Bittner said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91423","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}