Russia has begun the first-ever experiment on 3D printing of live organic tissue and organ constructs using a bioprinter on board the International Space Station (ISS), the Invitro company told Sputnik on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 05th December, 2018) Russia has begun the first-ever experiment on 3D printing of live organic tissue and organ constructs using a bioprinter on board the International Space Station (ISS), the Invitro company told Sputnik on Wednesday.The 3D Bioprinting Solutions laboratory, a subsidiary of Invitro, has built the FABION universal 3D bioprinter, which was delivered to the ISS by Soyuz MS-11 piloted spacecraft on December 3. The United States plans to send its first bioprinter to the ISS in the spring of 2019, which gives Russia a competitive advantage in this field of technology.
"Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, trained to work with a bioprinter, began the experiment on printing live organic tissue on December 4 at 05.00 pm Moscow time [14:00 GMT]. As a result of the experiment, it is planned to obtain cartilage tissue and an organ construct of a thyroid gland of a mouse," Invitro's press service said.
According to Invitro, the results of the experiment will be brought back to Earth later in December for further study.
"They will be made public in early January 2019," the company said.
