{"id":4674,"date":"2016-03-09T13:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4674"},"modified":"2016-03-14T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T15:00:26","slug":"growing-hearts-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/growing-hearts-in-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing hearts in 3D<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Growing realistic human tissue outside the body is now possible thanks to the recently developed \u201cperson-on-a-chip\u201d according to researchers at University of Toronto. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new technology, called AngioChip, could one day be used to repair or even replace damaged organs.\u00a0<\/span>In the meantime the researchers believe their development offers a new tool for discovering and testing new medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers built 3D scaffolds for cells to attach to and grow around. This environment allows the cells to grow faster, and better resemble, real living tissue than cells grown in a flat petri dish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nature\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nature17181.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research\u00a0paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published by <em>Nature Materials\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>March\u00a07<\/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><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Koen Hufkens, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Massachusetts, U.S.A.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Milica Radisic, Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing realistic human tissue outside the body is now possible thanks to the recently developed \u201cperson-on-a-chip\u201d according to researchers at University of Toronto. The new technology, called AngioChip, could one day be used to repair or even replace damaged organs.\u00a0In the meantime the researchers believe their development offers a new tool for discovering and testing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[53,50,1288,1011],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-stem-cells","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1do","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","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=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4679,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions\/4679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}