{"id":876,"date":"2017-06-27T10:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/?p=876"},"modified":"2023-10-17T09:58:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T19:58:19","slug":"reptile-skin-grown-in-lab-for-first-time-helps-study-endangered-turtle-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/2017\/06\/27\/reptile-skin-grown-in-lab-for-first-time-helps-study-endangered-turtle-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Reptile skin grown in lab for first time, helps study endangered turtle disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/b1d237aad44a95e3871fc116e6241517_M.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/b1d237aad44a95e3871fc116e6241517_M.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/b1d237aad44a95e3871fc116e6241517_M-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists, including Tina Weatherby with the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), published a study wherein they reconstructed the skin of endangered green turtles, marking the first time that skin of a non-mammal was successfully engineered in a laboratory. In turn, the scientists were able to grow a tumor-associated virus to better understand certain tumor diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/27\/reptile-skin-grown-in-lab-for-first-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists, including Tina Weatherby with the University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), published a study wherein they reconstructed the skin of endangered green turtles, marking the first time that skin of a non-mammal was successfully engineered in a laboratory. In turn, the scientists were able to grow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":881,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbrc.hawaii.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}