{"id":95916,"date":"2019-09-07T17:24:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T00:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/researchers-3d-print-functional-components-of-human-heart"},"modified":"2019-09-07T17:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T00:24:06","slug":"researchers-3d-print-functional-components-of-human-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/researchers-3d-print-functional-components-of-human-heart","title":{"rendered":"Researchers 3D Print Functional Components of Human Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-3d-print-functional-components-of-human-heart2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go modular or even get an upgrade:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University just 3D printed functional components of the human heart \u2014 including small blood vessels and large beating ventricles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now have the ability to build constructs that recapitulate key structural, mechanical, and biological properties of native tissues,\u201d said Adam Feinberg, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and the co-founder of 3D printing company FluidForm, which built the tech the team used, in <a href=\"https:\/\/eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-08\/f-f3p080119.php\">a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Lub Dub<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Printing tissues capable of functioning like the real thing is particularly challenging. Complex shapes have to be supported as they\u2019re being printed or otherwise they begin to sag. The team solved this issue, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/365\/6452\/482\">a paper<\/a> published in the journal <em>Science<\/em> today, by printing scaffolds from a temporary support gel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go modular or even get an upgrade: A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University just 3D printed functional components of the human heart \u2014 including small blood vessels and large beating ventricles. \u201cWe now have the ability to build constructs that recapitulate key structural, mechanical, and biological properties of native tissues,\u201d said Adam Feinberg, [\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-95916","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\/95916","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=95916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}