Bioprinting in orbit
Russia has started printing mini organs in space for the first time in history
For the first time in history, organs began to be created on the International Space Station , the press service of the Invitro company told RIA Novosti.
"Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, previously trained to work with a bioprinter, began an experiment on printing living tissues on December 4 at 17:00 Moscow time. As a result of the experiment, it is planned to obtain cartilage tissue and an organ construct of the mouse thyroid gland," the company said.
The results of the experiment will be sent to Earth in December 2018, then they will be examined and the results will be published in early 2019.
The United States plans to send its bioprinter to the ISS in the spring of 2019.
Russia was going to launch the first such device into space on October 11, but this did not happen due to the launch vehicle accident. The developers quickly prepared another copy and on December 3 it was sent from Baikonur to the ISS.
A bioprinter of the company that survived the Soyuz-FG rocket accident on October 11. Photo: Invitro press service.
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