{"id":11953,"date":"2010-05-16T20:59:31","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T18:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-2684"},"modified":"2010-05-16T20:59:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T18:59:31","slug":"tissue-engineers-create-a-new-way-to-assemble-artificial-tissues-using-biological-legos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/05\/16\/tissue-engineers-create-a-new-way-to-assemble-artificial-tissues-using-biological-legos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tissue Engineers Create a New Way to Assemble Artificial Tissues, Using &#8216;Biological Legos&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n\tTissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to<br \/>\n\treplace damaged livers, blood vessels and other body parts. However, one<br \/>\n\tmajor obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab dish to form 3-D shapes<br \/>\n\tinstead of flat layers.<\/p>\n<p>\tResearchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and<br \/>\n\tTechnology (HST) have come up with a new way to overcome that challenge,<br \/>\n\tby encapsulating living cells in cubes and arranging them into 3-D<br \/>\n\tstructures, just as a child would construct buildings out of blocks.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe new technique, dubbed &#8220;micromasonry,&#8221; employs a gel-like material<br \/>\n\tthat acts like concrete, binding the cell &#8220;bricks&#8221; together as it<br \/>\n\thardens. Ali Khademhosseini, assistant professor of HST, and former HST<br \/>\n\tpostdoctoral associate Javier Gomez Fernandez describe the work in a<br \/>\n\tpaper published online in the journal <em>Advanced Materials<\/em>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/05\/100513112813.htm\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tissue engineering has long held promise for building new organs to replace damaged livers, blood vessels and other body parts. However, one major obstacle is getting cells grown in a lab dish to form 3-D shapes instead of flat layers. Researchers at the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) have come up with &#8230; <a title=\"Tissue Engineers Create a New Way to Assemble Artificial Tissues, Using &#8216;Biological Legos&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/05\/16\/tissue-engineers-create-a-new-way-to-assemble-artificial-tissues-using-biological-legos\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/11953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}