MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Russian cosmonaut has bio-printed mouse organs and human tissue in space and brought the samples back to Earth, Russia’s private medical firm Invitro told Sputnik on Friday.
The first ever experiment, organized by the company’s 3D Bioprinting Solutions lab, was carried out on December 4. Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko used the Russia-made Organavt printer to produce six human cartilages and six mouse thyroid glands.