{"id":91670,"date":"2019-06-05T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/chinese-scientists-make-breakthrough-in-injectable-cartilage"},"modified":"2019-06-05T21:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T04:47:11","slug":"chinese-scientists-make-breakthrough-in-injectable-cartilage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/chinese-scientists-make-breakthrough-in-injectable-cartilage","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists make breakthrough in injectable cartilage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinese-scientists-make-breakthrough-in-injectable-cartilage2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(ECNS) \u2014 The Chinese team that constructed the world\u2019s first ear in a lab and grafted it onto a patient last year has made new progress by developing injectable cartilage that can be used in human tissue repair and plastic surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The regeneration technique involves taking a small part of cartilage tissue from behind the ear of a patient, culturing seed cells in the lab and reproducing cells in a sufficient amount to fill a biodegradable mould made by 3D-printing.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Cao Yilin, director of National Tissue Engineering Research Center, said it marks a breakthrough from previous technology as the cultured cells can be injected into a patient\u2019s body parts like the nose and chin where they continue to develop into normal tissue, a minimally invasive treatment similar to natural growth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/m\/news\/sci-tech\/2019-06-04\/detail-ifziupva1116530.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/m\/news\/sci-tech\/2019-06-04\/detail-ifziupva1116530.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecns.cn\/m\/news\/sci-tech\/2019-06-04\/detail-ifziupva1116530.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ECNS) \u2014 The Chinese team that constructed the world\u2019s first ear in a lab and grafted it onto a patient last year has made new progress by developing injectable cartilage that can be used in human tissue repair and plastic surgery. The regeneration technique involves taking a small part of cartilage tissue from behind the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91670","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91670"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91678,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91670\/revisions\/91678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}