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Artificial leather for astronauts

14.12.2018

The European Space Agency (ESA) has started working on 3D printing technology for artificial skin and organs for astronauts.

Astronauts of the Apollo lunar mission made their 12-day flight with a modest first aid kit, which contained only bandages, antibiotics and aspirin. Future space travelers who will spend months and even years away from Earth will need more advanced medical support.

That is why ESA is launching a large-scale scientific project called "3D printing of living tissue for space exploration." Several European universities will work on it. The project aims to explore the prospects for using 3D bioprinting as a medical aid during long-duration space flights and stays on Martian or lunar bases.

“In the event of an urgent medical problem, a quick return home will not be possible. Patients will have to be treated on the spot,” emphasizes Sandra Podhajski, head of the project.

For example, in the event of a severe burn, it is theoretically possible to grow new skin from the patient's own cells and then transplant it.

Just as standard 3D printers use polymers or metals to print three-dimensional objects, 3D bioprinters use human cell-based "bio-inks" as well as nutrients and special scaffolds needed to build the correct structure of skin, bone or cartilage tissue. . In the next decade, scientists hope to be able to print entire organs.

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