{"id":99544,"date":"2019-12-10T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-create-a-new-kind-of-artificial-flesh-that-heals-itself-like-the-real-thing"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:06:59","slug":"scientists-create-a-new-kind-of-artificial-flesh-that-heals-itself-like-the-real-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/scientists-create-a-new-kind-of-artificial-flesh-that-heals-itself-like-the-real-thing","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create a New Kind of Artificial Flesh That Heals Itself Like The Real Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-a-new-kind-of-artificial-flesh-that-heals-itself-like-the-real-thing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Artificial flesh is growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/this-flexible-skin-like-sticker-can-wirelessly-monitor-your-body-s-vital-signs\">ever closer<\/a> to the real thing. Scientists in Australia have now created a new jelly-like material which they claim has the strength and durability of actual skin, ligaments, or even bone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the special chemistry we\u2019ve engineered in the hydrogel, it can repair itself after it has been broken like human skin can,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-12-jelly-human-skin.html\">explains<\/a> chemist Luke Connal from the Australian National University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHydrogels are usually weak, but our material is so strong it could easily lift very heavy objects and can change its shape like human muscles do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial flesh is growing ever closer to the real thing. Scientists in Australia have now created a new jelly-like material which they claim has the strength and durability of actual skin, ligaments, or even bone. \u201cWith the special chemistry we\u2019ve engineered in the hydrogel, it can repair itself after it has been broken like human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99544","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}