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THE FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING IN MEDICAL SECTOR

With a global shortage of organs suitable for transplant into critically ill patients, some researchers are looking at 3D printing of living tissue as a solution – but to do it they might need to go into orbit.

When you're 3D-printing a tissue culture on the ground, there's a tendency for them to collapse in the presence of gravity, The tissues require some sort of [temporary, organic] scaffold to hold everything in place, especially with cavities like the chambers of a heart. For that if feeling and trials are going to print in spacecraft were effects is a micro-gravity environment or at ground level same situation to be created.