{"id":31,"date":"2005-01-01T10:54:52","date_gmt":"2005-01-01T17:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=31"},"modified":"2005-01-01T10:54:52","modified_gmt":"2005-01-01T17:54:52","slug":"vat-grown-leather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Vat-grown leather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,65248,00.html\">Wired News: Jacket Grows From Living Tissue<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Grown using a combination of mouse and human cells, the jacket is currently quite tiny (about 2 inches high and 1.4 inches wide) and would just fit a mouse. Using a biodegradable polymer as a base, the team coated it with 3T3 mouse cells to form connective tissue and topped it up with human bone cells in the hope of creating a stronger layer of skin. The jacket is being grown inside a specially designed bioreactor that acts as a surrogate body. The group hopes that once the polymer degrades, a whole jacket that maintains its shape and integrity will be left behind.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Neat.<\/p>\n<p>Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/gadgets\/gizmodo-year-in-review-october-028650.php\">Gizmodo&#8217;s year-end roundup<\/a>.  (Though I have no idea how I missed this in October&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired News: Jacket Grows From Living Tissue: &#8220;Grown using a combination of mouse and human cells, the jacket is currently quite tiny (about 2 inches high and 1.4 inches wide) and would just fit a mouse. Using a biodegradable polymer as a base, the team coated it with 3T3 mouse cells to form connective tissue <a href='https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/?p=31'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netfluvia.org\/layer8\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}