{"id":4647,"date":"2016-02-16T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T17:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2016-02-26T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T17:57:09","slug":"printing-living-bones-may-be-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/printing-living-bones-may-be-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Printing living bones may be possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4648\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/13-1024x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4648\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4648\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/13-1024x768-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A completed ear structure printed with the Integrated Tissue-Organ Printing System. (Image credit: Credit: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/13-1024x768-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/13-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A completed ear structure printed with the Integrated Tissue-Organ Printing System. (Image credit: Credit: Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Printing bones and cartilage could be the way of the future. Using specialized \u2018bioprinters\u2019, researchers have been able to \u201cprint\u201d cells into layered patterns reconstructing human body parts. Current 3D printers are unable to create bone and cartilage with enough structural stability. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By combining bioprinters with biodegradable polymer materials researchers were able to \u201ccreate\u201d the cartilage of the external human ear as well as a jaw bone and skeletal muscle. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors note that more research and further development is needed before tissues from the bioprinter are suitable for human transplantation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nature.com\/articles\/doi:10.1038\/nbt.3413\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Nature Biotechnology\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>February 15<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anthony Atala, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, North Carolina, U.S.A.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printing bones and cartilage could be the way of the future. Using specialized \u2018bioprinters\u2019, researchers have been able to \u201cprint\u201d cells into layered patterns reconstructing human body parts. Current 3D printers are unable to create bone and cartilage with enough structural stability. By combining bioprinters with biodegradable polymer materials researchers were able to \u201ccreate\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[113,51,53,1011],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biology","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/13-1024x768.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1cX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}