humble3d Posted June 27, 2016 Share Posted June 27, 2016 NASA Plan to Clone Humans on Mars... NASA wants to grow body parts on Mars NASA has revealed it aims to grow human tissue in space to help aid the future of deep space explorations. It has launched a competition for scientists to create a thick and functional skin tissue that could survive off the planet. The space agency is studying the health risks and improvements needed to medicine keep space crews healthy during future, longer, space missions. It was worked with Methuselah Foundation's New Organ Alliance to investigate how to improve bioengineering through a competition called the Vascular Tissue Challenge. The agency fund to three teams asked to create a "metabolically-functional" human vascularized organ tissue that can be artificially controlled inside a laboratory. To win, teams have to produce a 1cm-thick tissue that can maintain more than 85 percent survival of its cells over 30 days. Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA, said: "The humans who will be our deep space pioneers are our most important resource on the Journey to Mars and beyond." A NASA spokesman said: "The result of the competition will not only be beneficial to space exploration but it is also expected to revolutionize health care on Earth as well. "The competition will test if the human tissue can withstand the factors involved in deep space explorations." Tissues produced during the competition will serve as a model or organ substitute that will be used to study the effects of deep space factors such as radiation. The spokesman added: "This technique will help NASA minimise the damage to actual healthy cells." NASA believes that once the key barrier is removed, progress and further understanding follows, "once the 'vascularization limit' is solved, via the NASA Vascular Tissue Challenge, there inevitably will be a historic advance in progress and commercialization of tissue engineering applications to everyone's benefit," said Jurczyk, in a statement. There are fears that creating artificial tissue will lead on to body parts and possibly eventually, full-blown human cloning. http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/680113/Will-humans-be-cloned-in-space-NASA-wants-to-grow-body-parts-on-Mars Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtmulc Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 7 hours ago, humble3d said: There are fears that creating artificial tissue will lead on to body parts For all the people awaiting organ transplants, this sounds wonderful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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