In a revolutionary leap for organ regeneration, Japanese researchers have successfully kept a 3D-printed human liver alive for 30 days\u2014marking a massive step toward lab-grown transplantable organs.
\nUsing induced pluripotent stem cells and precision bio-ink, scientists printed complex liver tissue with functioning blood vessels and metabolic activity. Unlike earlier prototypes, this tissue didn\u2019t just survive\u2014it began behaving like a real liver, processing toxins, producing albumin, and forming vascular connections in the lab.
\nThis kind of tissue engineering could one day eliminate the need for donor livers and dramatically shorten transplant waitlists. And the implications go far beyond livers: if scalable, the same technology could be applied to hearts, kidneys, and even entire limbs.
\nThe age of printing functional human organs may finally be moving from science fiction to science fact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a revolutionary leap for organ regeneration, Japanese researchers have successfully kept a 3D-printed human liver alive for 30 days\u2014marking a massive step toward lab-grown transplantable organs. Using induced pluripotent stem cells and precision bio-ink, scientists printed complex liver tissue with functioning blood vessels and metabolic activity. Unlike earlier prototypes, this tissue didn\u2019t just survive\u2014it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonathandespres.com\/cryonicsrevival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}