Blood Vessel Printing, Cancer Research, and Spacewalk Preps Keep Crew Busy
Expedition 75 spent Tuesday advancing human health on and off the Earth with 3D bioprinting, cancer research, and exercise studies. Meanwhile, spacewalk preparations continue aboard the International Space Station to augment its power generation system. The post Blood Vessel Printing, Cancer Research, and Spacewalk Preps Keep Crew Busy appeared first on NASA Science .
NASA Expedition 75 aboard the International Space Station focused on advancing human health by engaging in 3D bioprinting, cancer research, and exercise studies. Vascular cells bioprinted in microgravity showed superior results compared to those created on Earth, paving the way for engineering human tissues and organs for patient treatments.
Crew members Luke Delaney and Jessica Watkins participated in a cellular printing study using the Columbus laboratory module's BioFabrication Facility. Delaney also conducted a cancer study, observing how cancer cells grow and respond to treatments in weightlessness, which could aid in identifying cellular and genetic influences of cancer and developing more effective therapies.
Joshua Kutryk, a flight engineer, investigated how the body responds to exercising in a weightless environment using an advanced resistive exercise device. Anil Menon worked in the Quest airlock, preparing for two upcoming spacewalks in October and November, where he and Kutryk will install roll-out solar arrays to augment the station's power generation system by up to 30 percent.
Additional activities included station commander Pyotr Dubrov capturing Earth images from the Zvezda service module and Roscosmos flight engineers training for their upcoming missions.
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