{"id":6184,"date":"2016-10-27T19:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-28T00:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2016-10-27T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T00:03:45","slug":"printed-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/27\/printed-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Printed Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This report from <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (8 October 2016) is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23230944-400-bouncy-bone-can-be-3dprinted-to-become-a-universal-repair-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">interesting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;\u00a0an ink has been developed that can be used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/gallery\/3d-printed-body\/\">3D print<\/a> bone implants in any size, shape and form \u2013 from leg bones to entire skulls. And because the implants are flexible, they can be cut into the perfect shape in the operating theatre.<\/p>\n<p>The ink is made from hydroxyapatite, a mineral found naturally in bone, and PLGA, a polymer that binds the mineral particles together and gives the implants their elasticity. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Once in place, the implants are rapidly infiltrated by blood vessels and gradually turn into natural bone (<i>Science Translational Medicine<\/i>, <a href=\"http:\/\/doi.org\/bq8r\">doi.org\/bq8r<\/a>). This offers a cheap and versatile way to repair an injury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns into bone? Wow. I wonder what limitations there might be. Could they print a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_ear\" target=\"_blank\">middle ear<\/a> and have it work?<\/p>\n<div id=\"video-mid-article\" class=\"mpu\" data-google-query-id=\"CJ7DrbKY_M8CFU8vaQodxrwA9Q\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This report from NewScientist (8 October 2016) is interesting: &#8230;\u00a0an ink has been developed that can be used to 3D print bone implants in any size, shape and form \u2013 from leg bones to entire skulls. And because the implants are flexible, they can be cut into the perfect shape \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/27\/printed-bones\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6185,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions\/6185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}