{"id":709428,"date":"2021-11-26T13:58:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709428"},"modified":"2021-11-26T13:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T17:58:52","slug":"birds-of-prey-wear-3d-printed-shoes-to-treat-foot-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709428","title":{"rendered":"Birds of prey wear 3D-printed shoes to treat foot disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology now has a new addition to its list of useful applications\u2014producing protective shoes for birds. In a first for Asia, Jurong Bird Park&#8217;s avian veterinary team and the Keio-NUS CUTE Center at the National University of Singapore (NUS) jointly embarked on a two-year effort to create silicone shoes casted from 3D printed molds for the wildlife park&#8217;s birds of prey. This collaboration has achieved an effective treatment plan for a medical condition known as pododermatitis or &#8220;bumblefoot&#8221; in birds.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-11-birds-prey-3d-printed-foot-disease.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Birds of prey wear 3D-printed shoes to treat foot disease<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology now has a new addition to its list of useful applications\u2014producing protective shoes for birds. In a first for Asia, Jurong Bird Park&#8217;s avian veterinary team&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-709428","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\/709428","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=709428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709428\/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=709428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}