International Space Station bioprinting results due to be published in January

Written by Georgi Makin

Following the announcement of the first human cartilage and rodent thyroid glands tissues to be successfully printed in space, the teams involved have confirmed that the first results from the bioprinting project based on the International Space Station will be released by the end of January. INVITRO, an independent Russian medical company, 3D Bioprinting Solutions (Moscow, Russia), a biotechnology laboratory, and ROSCOSMOS State Corporation (Moscow, Russia) have recently announced that they have been the first to successfully 3D bioprint human cartilage and rodent thyroid glands tissues whilst in orbit. Speaking at a press conference at TASS (Moscow, Russia), a Russian...

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