{"id":827,"date":"2024-02-22T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T15:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2024-03-09T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:23:52","slug":"asteroids-hemorrhoids-andorganoids-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/2024\/02\/22\/asteroids-hemorrhoids-andorganoids-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Asteroids, Hemorrhoids, and\u2026\u2026Organoids? Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"339\" src=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1812.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1812.jpeg 602w, https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_1812-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ijbs.com\/v20p1024.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">research paper<\/a>\u00a0from International Journal of Biological Sciences describes growing testis in a dish with the eventual purpose of assisting with male infertility. Researches refer to these artificial testis as \u201corganoids\u201d and are derived from the testis of mice.I hope they\u2019re careful not to attempt this in the state of Alabama, where they might be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/02\/21\/1232742485\/alabama-supreme-court-frozen-embryos-ivf-in-vitro-fertilization\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mistaken for actual people<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we won\u2019t know when the first offspring resulting from these mice-derived artificial testicles, I\u2019d like to be the first to recommend that they be named Mickey or Minnie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0research paper\u00a0from International Journal of Biological Sciences describes growing testis in a dish with the eventual purpose of assisting with male infertility. Researches refer to these artificial testis as \u201corganoids\u201d and are derived from the testis of mice.I hope they\u2019re careful not to attempt this in the state of Alabama, where they might be\u00a0mistaken for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.basilweb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}