NASA Wants To 3D-Print Human Organs In Space & It's Ready To Start Testing

NASA Wants To 3D-Print Human Organs In Space & It's Ready To Start Testing

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NASA is sending a 3D human tissue printer to the International Space Station. The technology is critical for missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

NASA is sending a new 3D printer designed to heal wounds by printing human skin to the International Space Station. NASA has been experimenting with 3D printers in space for more than seven years. The first spaceborne 3D printer proved that 3D printing in microgravity had the same strengths as printing on Earth.

Human cells and tissue have been built in labs on Earth for some time. These are grown in a petri dish or other containers. Printing in microgravity allows cells to grow as they naturally grow inside a body. In microgravity, cells can "float" and grow in three dimensions, up, down, left, and right, without being confined to the bottom of a dish.

NASA is sending a 3D bioprinter to print human tissue directly on wounds to accelerate healing. The 3D human skin tissue printer is one of the experiments hitching a ride to the ISS on the 24th SpaceX cargo resupply service mission. The printer called Bioprint FristAid, developed by the German Space Agency uses the patient's own skin to form a patch and cover a wound. 3D organ and tissue printing are critical for NASA's future mission to the moon, Mars, and beyond.

Generation, Regeneration, And Longevity

Exploring space and long-term human presence in space requires a unique set of self-sufficient resources. Humans are the most valuable resources NASA has. To keep those resources healthy for missions, NASA is deeply involved in technology that can generate, regenerate and extend life. For example, the 3D FirstAid Handheld Bioprinter uses bio-inks to create a "band-aid" patch.

The Bioprinter is not the first 3D printer NASA has developed and tested in the ISS. Recently, two teams from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine WFIRM in North Carolina won the first two prizes of NASA's Vascular Tissue Challenge. The winning team was awarded the cash price of half a million dollars for building a 3D printer that printed out human liver tissues. The tissue was strong enough to survive and function as it would inside a human body.

Printing organs using the patient's cells is believed to reduce the chances of the body considering the organ a foreign object and rejecting the transplant. NASA has also been testing three more 3D human tissue printers. Two of these work as ordinary 3D printers do, printing a layer of cells on top of another. The other one uses powerful magnets to position the cells in place. NASA is confident that 3D bioprinters will play a leading role in space exploration and improve life on Earth and is getting close to printing human organs.

 

[Mal0]

As cool as this is, the pessimist inside me is thinking that instead of being used to regrow limbs for combat veterans or organs for those that need transplants, this technology will either be so expensive only the uber rich could benefit from this, or will be used to allow genderspecials to Frankenstein themselves. Or both.

 

[Billy Beer]

On one hand this seems like a desperate attempt to extend life. On the other hand, in space, international law can't hear your abominations scream.

 

[Maurice Caine]

As cool as this is, the pessimist inside me is thinking that instead of being used to regrow limbs for combat veterans or organs for those that need transplants, this technology will either be so expensive only the uber rich could benefit from this, or will be used to allow genderspecials to Frankenstein themselves. Or both.

Why do people always default for troonism for things like this? Doesn't even cross my mind until someone mentions it.

 

[Mal0]

Why do people always default for troonism for things like this? Doesn't even cross my mind until someone mentions it.

I spend far too much time in the Tranny Sideshows thread

 

[JULAY]

As cool as this is, the pessimist inside me is thinking that instead of being used to regrow limbs for combat veterans or organs for those that need transplants, this technology will either be so expensive only the uber rich could benefit from this, or will be used to allow genderspecials to Frankenstein themselves. Or both.

I came here to say exactly this, minus the genderspecials, but now that you mention it, um, yeah, probably that too.

 

[MadStan]

I find this fascinating.

And at the same time I think to the plot of "The Blob" in 1988.

 

[MysticLord]

How does doing this in space affect anything?

Is it just so we can say we're doing [thing] IIIINNNNN SSSSPPPPPAAAAACCCCCCEEEEE?

 

[CircuSphere]

Why can't this shit be done in a fluid rather than space? Is it just more a more fun way to burn tax money?

 

[Idiotron]

If this works, this will be the first useful thing NASA has done in decades.

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

This seems like the first part of a 13 part series of stories that ends with NASA accidentally wiping out humanity due to some lab grown monstrosity rampaging and reproducing like mad.

 

[usernames can change now!]

How does doing this in space affect anything?

Is it just so we can say we're doing [thing] IIIINNNNN SSSSPPPPPAAAAACCCCCCEEEEE?

You can't print a heart under regular gravity, it'll collapse on itself while you print it. That's not a problem IN SPAAAAACE

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

As cool as this is, the pessimist inside me is thinking that instead of being used to regrow limbs for combat veterans or organs for those that need transplants, this technology will either be so expensive only the uber rich could benefit from this, or will be used to allow genderspecials to Frankenstein themselves. Or both.

It also sounds gross/weird.
But these machines could be a way to keep cannibals at bay.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

How does doing this in space affect anything?

Is it just so we can say we're doing [thing] IIIINNNNN SSSSPPPPPAAAAACCCCCCEEEEE?

Zero gravity fucks with the way things work. For instance, it fucks with your natural entropy & causes it to accelerate because your muscles & bones are no longer resisting the natural forces of gravity. How that plays into growing organs, I have no idea.

How would these artificial organs even work inside a person at the cellular level? All of your body parts require your DNA or else it's at risk of being rejected.

Printing organs using the patient's cells is believed to reduce the chances of the body considering the organ a foreign object and rejecting the transplant.

Oh I see, it actually requires samples from the recipient of the tissue replacement.

Human cells and tissue have been built in labs on Earth for some time. These are grown in a petri dish or other containers. Printing in microgravity allows cells to grow as they naturally grow inside a body. In microgravity, cells can "float" and grow in three dimensions, up, down, left, and right, without being confined to the bottom of a dish.

Oh so that explains it, they want it to spread omnidirectionally.

 

[MysticLord]

How would these artificial organs even work inside a person at the cellular level? All of your body parts require your DNA or else it's at risk of being rejected.

If you lose a lung because D'trawnavious A-Shell* Washington felt disrespected and fired 70 shots at his homeboy, missing him and wounding you and 12 other people, then a lung with your own DNA is the ideal solution.

I assume they'd fiddle with the genes a bit if they grew something from your own DNA and you have a genetic issue.

*Pronounced "Adashell"

 

[Troonos]

This gives me daydreams of an unmanned, automated organ factory satellite in orbit. A hospital sends it an order for a kidney, it fires up the printer, loads the organ into a guided drop pod and drops it into the atmosphere, then the pod parachutes onto the roof of the hospital where staff is waiting.

Holy crap, that would be a cool future.

 

[Cup Noodle]

As cool as this is, the pessimist inside me is thinking that instead of being used to regrow limbs for combat veterans or organs for those that need transplants, this technology will either be so expensive only the uber rich could benefit from this, or will be used to allow genderspecials to Frankenstein themselves. Or both.

I'll finally get my cat girl pussy. I can't wait.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

The misanthrope in me thinks that modern medicine allowing people to live longer is contributing to over population and mass consumption of resources.

 

[Ophelia Jones]

I'm not very knowledgeable about physics, but cant they simulate an enclosed zero gravity environment on earth? Doing it all in space sounds too much like an expensive gimmick to -as people have said already- make it something exclusively for the wealthy.

Also, am I the only one who thinks this is somewhat of a slippery slope to 3D printing children/ whole humans?

 

[Xenomorph]

Drink up drunks! We can just Kinkos another liver!