Scientists at the Biomedical Engineering Science and Education Center at NUST MISIS, together with employees of the 3D Bioprinting Solutions company, have developed a shape memory material for experiments by astronauts on the ISS using the Organ.Avt magnetic 4D bioprinter. This was reported to socialbites.ca at NUST MISIS.
Neither Russian nor foreign researchers have currently conducted experiments using a bioprinter and shape memory material that would alter geometry in space conditions. According to scientists, such an experiment is a big step into the future.
“Cosmonauts will have to conduct a series of experiments with a synthetic plate created at NUST MISIS, covered with cellular material and with a shape memory effect. With a certain blow, it will transform into a tubular structure. Fyodor Senov, REC director of NUST MISiS Biomedical Engineering, Gazeta. In the future, for example, artificial containers can be made from such materials, he told Ru.
The materials will form the basis of promising bioengineering structures for regenerative medicine, orthopedics, bone grafting and other fields of science.
The biomaterials will be delivered to Earth after the experiment, which is scheduled for autumn. The scientists will evaluate the mechanical and functional properties of the tissue engineered construct created.
Organ.Avt printer created by 3D Bioprinting Solutions will be used for the experiment. The biostructures in it are not created in layers inside the cuvette, as in 3D devices, but from all sides simultaneously. This technology is called magnetic biofabrication.
“The merged object rises in space, is fixed, can be explored. Yusef Khesuani, managing partner of 3D Bioprinting Solutions, a biotechnology research company, explained to socialbites.ca.