{"id":1505,"date":"2020-08-19T16:19:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2020-08-26T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T14:39:38","slug":"an-organ-on-a-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/an-organ-on-a-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"An organ&#8230;-on-a-ship?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Talk about missed opportunities!  How did we not realize this before?  Last year, Arvind and team published a particularly neat concept paper on <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.rsc.org\/en\/content\/articlepdf\/2019\/LC\/C9LC00267G\">sinkable microboats<\/a> for stiffness-tunable lung cultures.  Making the boats with a porous hydrogel bottom allowed us to reliably transition cells between submerged and air-liquid interface, needed for lung epithelial cell differentiation and monitoring.  One year later, we realized that we had developed an organ-on-a-ship&#8230; and will kick ourselves for several years for letting that opportunity for a pun pass us by.  Oh well. Water under the boat. That ship has sailed =(<\/p>\n  <div class=\"otw-row\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk about missed opportunities! How did we not realize this before? Last year, Arvind and team published a particularly neat concept paper on sinkable microboats for stiffness-tunable lung cultures. Making the boats with a porous hydrogel bottom allowed us to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moraeslab.com\/cmed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}