{"id":93364,"date":"2019-07-09T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/a-3d-printed-heart-with-blood-vessels-has-been-made-using-human-tissue"},"modified":"2019-07-09T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:22:28","slug":"a-3d-printed-heart-with-blood-vessels-has-been-made-using-human-tissue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/a-3d-printed-heart-with-blood-vessels-has-been-made-using-human-tissue","title":{"rendered":"A 3D-printed heart with blood vessels has been made using human tissue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-3d-printed-heart-with-blood-vessels-has-been-made-using-human-tissue3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rabbit-sized heart was made from a patient\u2019s own cells and tissues, using techniques that could help to increase the rate of successful heart transplants in future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How it worked:<\/strong> A biopsy of tissue was taken from patients, and then its materials were separated. Some molecules, including collagen and glycoproteins, were processed into a hydrogel, which became the printing \u201cink.\u201d Once the hydrogel was mixed with stem cells from the tissue, the researchers from Tel Aviv University were able to create a patient-specific heart that included blood vessels. The idea is that such a heart would be less likely to be rejected when transplanted. The study was published in the journal <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1002\/advs.201900344\">Advanced Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let it flow:<\/strong> Until now, researchers have only been able to print simple tissues lacking blood vessels, according to the <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/HEALTH-SCIENCE\/Israeli-scientists-print-first-3D-heart-586902\">Jerusalem Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rabbit-sized heart was made from a patient\u2019s own cells and tissues, using techniques that could help to increase the rate of successful heart transplants in future. How it worked: A biopsy of tissue was taken from patients, and then its materials were separated. Some molecules, including collagen and glycoproteins, were processed into a hydrogel, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93364","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}