{"id":9477,"date":"2024-02-01T09:52:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/?p=9477"},"modified":"2024-02-01T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:52:44","slug":"the-cure-to-a-broken-heart-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/2024\/02\/01\/the-cure-to-a-broken-heart-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"The cure to a broken heart? Printing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img2.joyreactor.com\/pics\/post\/3D-pizza-food-1123277.gif\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Imagine this, but with <em>your <\/em>heart. And a bigger printer.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;t run out of ink on this one. With the January Blues in full swing, the incidences of broken hearts are sure to be on the rise. Not to worry though, a team of researchers from the Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen (Technical University of Munich) have developed 3D printed artificial heart valves to allow a patient&#8217;s own cells to form new specialised tissue using micro-scale cell scaffolding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a Biomedical Electronics Engineer this advancement in additive manufacturing of complex biomaterials is fascinating to me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t run out of ink on this one. With the January Blues in full swing, the incidences of broken hearts are sure to be on the rise. Not to worry though, a team of researchers from the Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen (Technical University of Munich) have developed 3D printed artificial heart valves to allow a patient&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-blogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9534,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9477\/revisions\/9534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/uosm2031-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}