{"id":2454,"date":"2018-06-07T09:27:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2018-06-07T09:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T09:27:43","slug":"scientists-successfully-3d-print-artificial-cornea-utilizing-human-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/scientists-successfully-3d-print-artificial-cornea-utilizing-human-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Successfully 3D Print Artificial Cornea By Utilizing Human Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle University&#8217;s Steve Swioklo and Professor Che Connon have officially pushed the envelope in the 3D printing industry by developing an artificial cornea.<\/p>\n<p>But not just any artificial cornea&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>By utilizing human cells the scientists successfully 3D printed the most advanced version of an artificial cornea to date, a development which has revolutionary potential for people struggling to see.<\/p>\n<p>A jelly-like goo called alginate and stem cells extracted from donor corneas, along with some ropy proteins called collagen were added together in order to create a bio-ink thin enough and sturdy enough to work as a 3D structure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/bulletin\/archives\/79%283%29214.pdf\">According to the World Health Organization<\/a>, approximately 5 million people around the world are blind due to infection scarring their corneas.<\/p>\n<p>This new technique has the ability to take cells from one donated cornea and print 50 artificial ones which could have massive implications moving forward into the future.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the technology still has a ways to go, including animal testing, but researchers have proved materials in the shape of corneas can and will be 3D printed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"flex-video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7xoRe2OFNnI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle University&#8217;s Steve Swioklo and Professor Che Connon have officially pushed the envelope in the 3D printing industry by developing an artificial cornea. But not just any artificial cornea&#8230; By utilizing human cells the scientists successfully 3D printed the most advanced version of an artificial cornea to date, a development which has revolutionary potential for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,56],"tags":[911,910],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.despatch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}