Curiosity Daily Podcast: 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!

August 31, 2022

Episode show notes:

Blood skin.

3D Bioprinting Artificial Bone for Emergency Medicine in Space by European Space Agency

https://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 Agency

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Upside-down_3D-printed_skin_and_bone_for_humans_to_Mars

Regenerative Medicine and 3D Bioprinting for Human Space Exploration and Planet Colonization by Tommaso Ghidini

https://dx.doi.org/10.21037%2Fjtd.2018.03.19

3D Bioprinting of Tissues and Organs by Sean V. Murphy & Anthony Atala

https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2958

Birth control plus extra.

Why Birth Control Side Effects Have Eluded Science by Saima Sidik

https://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.146.1.45

The Relationship Between Progestin Hormonal Contraception and Depression: A Systematic Review by Brett L. Worly, et al.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2018.01.010

Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression by Charlotte Wessel Skovlund, et al.

https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2016.2387

Hormonal 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 Howell

https://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 Wall

https://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 Jones

https://spacenews.com/china-aims-to-bring-mars-samples-to-earth-2-years-before-nasa-esa-mission/

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