{"id":629167,"date":"2019-08-30T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629167"},"modified":"2019-08-30T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T15:22:46","slug":"research-team-aims-to-reduce-cost-of-drug-development-using-3-d-printed-living-tissues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=629167","title":{"rendered":"Research team aims to reduce cost of drug development using 3-D-printed living tissues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas E. Angelini, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical &amp; Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida and his research group,  the Soft Matter Engineering lab have successfully fabricated living micro-beams from glioblastoma cells and extra-cellular material (ECM) embedded in a packed microgel support medium. They subsequently characterized the physical properties of the beams and compared their results against traditional mechanical engineering models. To their surprise, these microscopic, delicate structures behave a lot like the massive beams used in everyday building construction.  &#8220;We were pleased and excited to see that our micro-beams, only 50 to 200 \u00b5m in diameter, acted in accordance with the mechanical principles for other models such as large steel beams,&#8221; said S. Tori Ellison. Ellison is a Mechanical &amp; Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. student who is mentored by Dr. Angelini and is the co-first author on the published paper that resulted from this research.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-08-team-aims-drug-d-printed-tissues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Research team aims to reduce cost of drug development using 3-D-printed living tissues<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas E. Angelini, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical &amp; Aerospace Engineering at the University of Florida and his research group, the Soft Matter Engineering lab have successfully&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=629167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=629167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=629167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=629167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}