{"id":5008,"date":"2013-04-14T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2013-04-12T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T18:45:07","slug":"bioengineered-kidney-makes-urine-after-transplantation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2013\/04\/bioengineered-kidney-makes-urine-after-transplantation.html","title":{"rendered":"Bioengineered kidney makes urine after transplantation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bioengineered kidney makes urine\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5wfdhB_VyJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s research that could <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taking_the_piss\">take the piss<\/a> out of disease\u2014and it\u2019s no joke. For the first time, scientists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nm\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/abs\/nm.3154.html\">reporting in <i>Nature Medicine<\/i><\/a> have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>If the work can be replicated in humans, patients suffering from end-stage kidney disease could one day have \u201can organ that\u2019s grown on demand\u2014a tailored organ that can be transplanted and replaces the failing organ,\u201d says study author <a href=\"https:\/\/ottlab.mgh.harvard.edu\/\">Harald Ott<\/a>, a bioengineer at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s research that could take the piss out of disease\u2014and it\u2019s no joke. For the first time, scientists reporting in Nature Medicine have created lab-grown kidneys in rats that produce urine after transplantation.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2013\/04\/bioengineered-kidney-makes-urine-after-transplantation.html#more-5008\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/2013\/04\/bioengineered-kidney-makes-urine-after-transplantation.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,8,18],"tags":[240,242,241],"class_list":["post-5008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-stem-cellscloning","category-video","tag-kidney","tag-lab-grown-organs","tag-tissue-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/spoonful\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}