{"id":95290,"date":"2019-08-25T21:43:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T04:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/african-professor-finds-solution-to-deafness-performs-first-inner-ear-surgery"},"modified":"2019-08-25T21:43:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T04:43:40","slug":"african-professor-finds-solution-to-deafness-performs-first-inner-ear-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/african-professor-finds-solution-to-deafness-performs-first-inner-ear-surgery","title":{"rendered":"African professor finds solution to deafness, performs first inner-ear surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/african-professor-finds-solution-to-deafness-performs-first-inner-ear-surgery3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A South African professor, Mashudu Tshifularo, and his team at the University of Pretoria pioneered the world\u2019s first middle ear transplant using 3D-printed bones. Here is how he carried out the successful surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A South African professor, Mashudu Tshifularo, and his team at the University of Pretoria pioneered the world\u2019s first middle ear transplant using 3D-printed bones. Here is how he carried out the successful surgery.<\/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-95290","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\/95290","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=95290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}