Can a 3D printer generate human organs... in outer space?


Filepic of a 3D printer in Hong Kong. The Wake Forest scientists won a competition to build lab-grown human tissue models for experiments in space using 3D printing. — AFP

NASA has a problem.

It wants to send humans on long-distance space missions — to Mars or beyond — but the human body does not thrive under the rigours of space.

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