The long-term goal of the experiment is to cover skin wounds with bio-ink from a 3D printer like a band-aid … The new technology should help to significantly improve wound care on space missions, but also in daily medical use on Earth … Human cells from the 3D printer, with which skin wounds can be covered like an adhesive plaster – that is the long-term goal of the Bioprint FirstAid experiment. As part of the mission “Cosmic Kiss”, the German ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer has now carried out the test series on the International Space Station. The mobile hand-held device is intended to significantly improve wound care … read more