As part of NASA’s vascular tissue challenge, scientists have successfully grown liver tissue that can run in the laboratory for 30 days.
In 2016, NASA launched this competition to find a team that can “create thick, vascularized human organ tissues in an extracorporeal environment to advance research and benefit medicine on long-term missions and on the planet.” According to the Description of the organization’s challenges. Today (June 9), the agency announced not one, but two winners of the challenge.
The two teams are composed of scientists from the Wake Forest Regenerative Medicine Research Institute (WFIRM) in North Carolina. They won the first and second places in the competition. They used two different methods to create laboratory cultures. Human liver tissue.
“I can’t exaggerate how impressive this is. When NASA began this challenge in 2016, we were not sure there would be a winner,” said Jim Royt, NASA’s deputy director of space technology. The statement said. “One day I heard about the first artificial organ transplantation and thought that this new challenge from NASA may have played a small role in achieving it. It will be very special.
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