{"id":85703,"date":"2018-12-11T07:22:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/organs-grown-in-space-russian-scientists-3d-print-mouses-thyroid-on-iss-in-world-first"},"modified":"2018-12-11T07:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:22:34","slug":"organs-grown-in-space-russian-scientists-3d-print-mouses-thyroid-on-iss-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/organs-grown-in-space-russian-scientists-3d-print-mouses-thyroid-on-iss-in-world-first","title":{"rendered":"Organs grown in space: Russian scientists 3D-print mouse\u2019s thyroid on ISS in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_OiBjbB0lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Medical research has taken a leap into the future as Russian scientists have managed to grow a mouse\u2019s thyroid in zero gravity using a 3D bioprinter on the International Space Station (ISS). And human organs may be next in line.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough device dubbed Organaut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.organaut.ru\/?utm_source=www_invitro_ru&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=main_slider&utm_campaign=organaut&from=main_slider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was delivered<\/a> to the ISS by a Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft on December 3 by Expedition 58.<\/p>\n<p>In what is no longer a plot of a sci-fi movie, the innovative device created a mouse\u2019s thyroid in zero gravity. And the result was a success. Invitro, whose subsidiary 3D Bioprinting Solutions built the printer, told Ria Novosti: <em>\u201cWe received photos from space. The camera clearly<a href=\"https:\/\/ria.ru\/20181205\/rossijjskijj-bioprinter-vpervye-v-istorii-napechatal-organ-v-kosmose-1543697502.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> shows<\/a> a living construction of a mouse\u2019s thyroid being assembled.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445723-russia-3d-printer-organ\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/445723-russia-3d-printer-organ\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical research has taken a leap into the future as Russian scientists have managed to grow a mouse\u2019s thyroid in zero gravity using a 3D bioprinter on the International Space Station (ISS). And human organs may be next in line. The breakthrough device dubbed Organaut was delivered to the ISS by a Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1503,11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}