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Cosmonaut builds engineered cartilage aboard the International Space Station – physicsworld.com
For the first time, 3D human tissue has been assembled in the microgravity of space, using a scaffold-free tissue engineering approach
For the first time, 3D human tissue has been assembled in the microgravity of space. Through a magnetic levitation device, researchers in Russia, led by Vladislav Parfenov at the Russian Academy of Sciences and 3D Bioprinting Solutions, enabled a cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to fabricate human cartilage from a few isolated cells. Their work could lead to crucial new techniques for regenerating tissues during long-term spaceflight.
Tissue engineering has seen a surge of…
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