Skin Print, Testing Birth Control, Race To Bring Mars Home

You’re going to learn about efforts to print astronaut skin in space with their own blood, the mystifying side effects of birth control, and the race to bring soil samples back from Mars!

Blood skin.

3D Bioprinting Artificial Bone for Emergency Medicine in Space by European Space Agencyhttps://scitechdaily.com/3d-bioprinting-artificial-bone-for-emergency-medicine-in-space/Upside-Down 3D-Printed Skin and Bone, for Humans to Mars by European Space Agencyhttps://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Upside-down_3D-printed_skin_and_bone_for_humans_to_MarsRegenerative Medicine and 3D Bioprinting for Human Space Exploration and Planet Colonization by Tommaso Ghidinihttps://dx.doi.org/10.21037%2Fjtd.2018.03.193D Bioprinting of Tissues and Organs by Sean V. Murphy & Anthony Atalahttps://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2958

Birth control plus extra.

Why Birth Control Side Effects Have Eluded Science by Saima Sidikhttps://undark.org/2022/03/07/why-birth-control-side-effects-have-eluded-science/Oral Contraception and Serious Psychiatric Illness: Absence of an Association by M.P. Vessey, et al.https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.146.1.45The Relationship Between Progestin Hormonal Contraception and Depression: A Systematic Review by Brett L. Worly, et al.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2018.01.010Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression by Charlotte Wessel Skovlund, et al.https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2387Hormonal Contraceptive Use is Associated with Neural and Affective Changes in Healthy Young Women by Nina Lisofsky, et al.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.042

Mars dirt.

“China plans to return Mars samples to Earth in 2031: report” by Elizabeth Howellhttps://www.space.com/china-return-mars-samples-earth-2031“US military to keep wary eye on Chinese and Russian space ambitions under President Biden” by Mike Wallhttps://www.space.com/us-space-policy-china-russia-biden-administration“China aims to bring Mars samples to Earth 2 years before NASA, ESA mission” by Andrew Joneshttps://spacenews.com/china-aims-to-bring-mars-samples-to-earth-2-years-before-nasa-esa-mission/

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