{"id":9234,"date":"2013-12-04T18:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T02:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9234"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:12:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:12:42","slug":"how-3d-printers-are-cranking-out-eyes-bones-and-blood-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/how-3d-printers-are-cranking-out-eyes-bones-and-blood-vessels","title":{"rendered":"How 3D Printers Are Cranking Out Eyes, Bones, and Blood Vessels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"meta-bg\"><span class=\"meta-info display-name strong\"><a class=\"text-upper\" href=\"http:\/\/kcampbelldollaghan.kinja.com\">Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan<\/a><\/span><span class=\"meta-info display-name strong published-on\"> <span class=\"trigger-italic\">on<\/span> <a class=\"text-upper\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\">Gizmodo<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"first-text\" data-textannotation-id=\"22002fc390135f64dce53fc4f33cf081\">At the dawn of rapid prototyping, a common predication was that 3D printing would transform manufacturing, spurring a consumer revolution that would put a printer in every home. That hasn\u2019t <em>quite <\/em>happened\u2014-and like so many emerging technologies, rapid prototyping has found its foothold in a surprisingly different field: Medicine.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"c646b00ea5cca3ab836916324d2b84b6\">The following studies and projects represent some of the most fascinating examples of \u201cbioprinting,\u201d or using a computer-controlled machine to assemble biological matter using organic inks and super-tough thermoplastics. They range from reconstructing major sections of skull to printing scaffolding upon which stem cells can grow into new bones. More below\u2014and look out for more <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/3d-printing-week\">3D printing week<\/a> content over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"c646b00ea5cca3ab836916324d2b84b6\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/how-doctors-are-printing-bones-eyes-noses-and-blood-1474983505\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan on Gizmodo At the dawn of rapid prototyping, a common predication was that 3D printing would transform manufacturing, spurring a consumer revolution that would put a printer in every home. That hasn\u2019t quite happened\u2014-and like so many emerging technologies, rapid prototyping has found its foothold in a surprisingly different field: Medicine. The following [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1503,11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65105,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9234\/revisions\/65105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}