{"id":98064,"date":"2019-11-02T07:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/living-skin-can-now-be-3d-printed-with-blood-vessels-included"},"modified":"2019-11-02T07:02:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T14:02:53","slug":"living-skin-can-now-be-3d-printed-with-blood-vessels-included","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/living-skin-can-now-be-3d-printed-with-blood-vessels-included","title":{"rendered":"Living skin can now be 3D-printed with blood vessels included"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7uM9HDmBeVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. The advancement, published online today in <i>Tissue Engineering Part A<\/i>, is a significant step toward creating grafts that are more like the skin our bodies produce naturally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, whatever is available as a clinical product is more like a fancy Band-Aid,\u201d said Pankaj Karande, an associate professor of chemical and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/biological+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biological engineering<\/a> and member of the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS), who led this research at Rensselaer. \u201cIt provides some accelerated wound healing, but eventually it just falls off; it never really integrates with the host <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cells<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A significant barrier to that integration has been the absence of a functioning vascular system in the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/skin+grafts\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">skin grafts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D print living skin, complete with blood vessels. The advancement, published online today in Tissue Engineering Part A, is a significant step toward creating grafts that are more like the skin our bodies produce naturally. \u201cRight now, whatever is available as a clinical product is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98064","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}