
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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