{"id":1020369,"date":"2024-02-07T01:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=1020369"},"modified":"2024-02-07T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T04:07:11","slug":"scientists-3d-printed-functional-human-brain-tissue-for-the-first-time-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/science\/scientists-3d-printed-functional-human-brain-tissue-for-the-first-time-ever","title":{"rendered":"Scientists 3D-printed functional human brain tissue for the first time ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have created the first 3D-printed human brain tissue that is actually functional. The group says it hopes that their research will open new doors for studying existing neurological disorders like Alzheimer&#8217;s. The researchers published their findings in a paper featured in Cell Stem Cell, detailing how they created the 3D-printed brain tissue using horizontal layers of &#8220;bio-ink&#8221; gel. &#8220;The tissue still has enough structure to hold together, but it is soft enough to allow the neurons to grow into each other and start talking to each other,&#8221; Su-Chun Zhang, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of researchers working with the University of Wisconsin-Madison claim to have created the first 3D-printed human brain tissue that is actually functional. The group says it hopes that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}