A biofabrication experiment could need incubators, bioreactors, and a team to run it all. In space, everything shrinks to shoebox-size, with no lab technician on board. Miguel Ferreira explains how at last year’s @horizoneu.bsky.social PULSE Summer School. ▶️ pulse-eic.eu/miguel-ferre...

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Captioned pre-recording of the talk “Tissue engineering in outer space” by Miguel Ferreira from Space Applications Services.

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Launch delays happen often. When your cargo is living tissue, every extra week matters. 📅 PhD students Cynthia Van Rompay & Emil Rehnberg (SCKCEN) explain: keeping organoids alive isn’t hard — keeping them dormant for 7 to 14 days before launch is. Rewatch the talk at pulse-eic.eu/cynthia-van-...

Cynthia Van Rompay and Emil Rehnberg – Online Summer School recording - PULSE

Captioned recording of the talk “Cardiac models and preservation methods” by Cynthia Van Rompay and Emil Rehnberg.

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How can we build a device that suspends cardiac cells and helps them combine into more complex tissues? That’s the role of Ezgi Çevik on our @horizoneu.bsky.social project! At the @merln-um.bsky.social, she is developing a magneto-acoustic system that creates precise balancing points. 🔊 🧲 #EUeic

What’s one the biggest obstacle to maintain muscle mass in space? 💪 🚀 Answer in the comments! Re-watch Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo’s talk from our @horizoneu.bsky.social project’s 2025 summer school to learn more! #SpaceMedicine #SpaceHealth #HorizonEU pulse-eic.eu/rodrigo-fern...

Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo​ – Online Summer School recording - PULSE

Captioned video and transcript of the talk “Dissecting Muscle in Orbit: From Astronauts to 3D cell models” by Rodrigo Fernandez-Gonzalo.

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How do astronauts protect themselves during a solar particle event? ☀️ ⚠️ Re-watch Sarah Baatout’s talk from our @horizoneu.bsky.social project’s 2025 summer school to find out! pulse-eic.eu/sarah-baatou... More to come at the end of August! 🌠 #SpaceMedicine #SpaceHealth #EUeic #HorizonEU

Sarah Baatout​ – Online Summer School recording - PULSE

Captioned video and transcript of the talk “Caring for human beyond hearth: The future of space medicine” by Sarah Baatout.

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#Microgravity can change cardiovascular function and accelerate ageing-like changes in cells and tissues. But it can also be used to create better ways to protect people from its effects. 🌌🫀 Our coordinator, Lorenzo Moroni, explains how our @horizoneu.bsky.social plans to do it.

Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project is one program among more than 100 in space biotech and life sciences! Explore the awesome map and extensive analysis by @expansebio.bsky.social! 🌌 www.expansebio.xyz/blog/spacebi... #SpaceBiotech #SpaceHealth #MicrogravityResearch #SpaceMedicine #SpacePharma

Expanse Bio - Space Biotech Hub

The Edge of the Universe is the Limit. Building breakthrough space biotech technologies for life on Earth and in space.

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We met in Udine, Italy, to share our latests results and decide as a team what comes next for PULSE. We covered everything from design adjustments to our 3D magneto-acoustic bioprinter to alternative ways to reach space. 🫀🚀 Thank you INsociety for treating us to such amazing food and views!

Are you a student just starting in the field of #bioprinting or #biofabrication? this review is for you! Check our new review about the current status of bioprinting organs from the perspective of phd students, out now on Advanced Healthcare Materials advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🔬 Free Nanobiotech Training in Italy! For scientists from universities, research, public bodies & SMEs. 📍 Ispra, Italy 🗓️ 23–27 March 2026 Explore micro(nano)plastics, nanomaterials, nanomedicines & 3D bioprinting, and more! Apply by 28 November: lnkd.in/dbmCdmPA

Check our latest publication about fabricating fibrillar bundle additives for muscle #bioprinting advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

✈️〰️22 Sekunden für Experimente: So lange herrscht nämlich Schwerelosigkeit bei den Flugmanövern des Airbus A310 ZERO-G, und das 31 mal am Tag. Die 45. #DLR-Parabelflugkampagne findet derzeit in Bordeaux 🇫🇷 statt, wo Forschende in der Schwerelosigkeit experimentieren. @cnes.fr 📸 Credit: DLR

This week, we celebrate 25 years of continuous human presence onboard the International Space Station! 🛰️ Explore a quarter century of space history in this interactive calendar of archived mission photos, videos, and comms! We are loving the “Good morning” messages from Houston. issinrealtime.org

ISS in Real Time

Explore 25 years onboard the International Space Station.

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The 45th parabolic flight campaign of @dlr-en.bsky.social & Novespace is starting! Our @uni-magdeburg.de are there! Aboard is the CIRCULATION 1 experiment to test the functionality of the our #EUfunded magneto-acoustic bioprinter under microgravity conditions! 🧲 🔊 💗 Photos by Katrin Maria S

Our partner, Space Application Services, is at the Starlab Europe User Conference! If you’re attending, go say hi during a coffee break to learn more our #HorizonEU project. There are videos and graphics! 👀 Starlab will replace the #ISS to allow #SpaceResearch to continue! 🛰️ #EUeic #StarlabUC

Watch Bjorn Baselet’s presentation “Radiation resistance in space” from our summer school “Tissue Engineering & Space Medicine”! 🎬 🌌 ☢️ The 5-day event had expert lectures and Q&As on #SpaceHealth, radiation, bioengineering, and career opportunities with @esa.int. pulse-eic.eu/bjorn-basele...

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Captioned video of the talk “Radiation resistance in space” by Bjorn Baselet, radiobiologist and space health researcher at SCK CEN.

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Our @horizoneu.bsky.social team is working on solutions to implant-associated infections from a new perspective. 🦠✨ We are developing bio-hydrogels that, when applied on infections, transform bacteria into a source for producing beneficial proteins. Visit our site to find out how: bioaction.eu

Expedition 73 at the International Space Station started doing cardiac research this week! 💓 Nasa flight engineers E. Michael Fincke and @jonnykimusa.bsky.social are using ultrasound devices to “identify signs of space-caused plaque buildup or accelerated aging-like symptoms in the arteries.”

Crew Studies Cardiac Health and Unpacks Cygnus, Progress Spacecraft - NASA

Expedition 73 kicked off the week with ultrasound scans for cardiac research and unloading new science experiments delivered last week aboard the Cygnus XL cargo craft. Spacesuit work and computer net...

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From 20–31 October, we will test our 3D bioprinter prototype in a #ZeroGravity flights campaign! 🛫🛬 It will be the first time our prototype will leave the lab to operate in flight — a huge step toward validating our technology for the International Space Station. pulse-eic.eu/pulse-projec...

PULSE project to test its first printer prototype in microgravity conditions - PULSE %

In an upcoming milestone, our partners from the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg will join a parabolic flight campaign by the German Aerospace Center’s.

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another busy day over in Warsaw for #Biofabrication2025. here the summary of our fantastic day of talks 📊 and posters 📃 #ISBFWarsaw2025

It’s tomorrow! If you’re at Biofabrication 2025 and feel curious about new levitation approaches to 3D bio print better tissue models in microgravity, then go to Miguel J. S. Ferreira’s presentation at 11:30 CEST, session S22b. #ISBFWarsaw2025 #Biofabrication2025 #SpaceResearch

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Miguel Ferreira, our partner from ICE Cubes Service will present our @horizoneu.bsky.social project and results next week at #Biofabrication2025 in Warsaw! 🇵🇱 Look for “PULSE - Magneto-acoustic 3D bioprinting onboard the International Space Station“ next Wednesday 17 September at 11:30 CEST.

Our project partner, Alix Lemaître gave a talk about her recent research on hydrogel screening at #ESB2025 last week! Congratulations 👏 She presented how to optimise “Natural Hydrogels to Support Cardiovascular Cell Culture: Towards Physiologically Relevant Human Cardiac Models.” #CardiacModels

Miguel Ferreira, our partner from ICE Cubes Service will present our @horizoneu.bsky.social project and results next week at #Biofabrication2025 in Warsaw! 🇵🇱 Look for “PULSE - Magneto-acoustic 3D bioprinting onboard the International Space Station“ next Wednesday 17 September at 11:30 CEST.

Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project partner, Mariangela Clemente, presented her poster at ESB 2025! It showcased recent work on multicompartmental Janus Liposomes, which have distinct hemispheres that interact with bacteria and hydrogels. 🌗 Congratulations! 🙌 #EUfunded #HorizonEU #EUeic #ESB2025

Congratulations to our @horizoneu.bsky.social project partner, Anna Mariano, for her oral presentation titled “Bio-hydrogels with integrated osteoinductive signals for bone regeneration“ at ESB 2025! 👏 #TissueRegeneration #Hydrogels #EUeic #EUfunded

Only 3 days left and we'll also be in Warsaw🇵🇱 for #Biofabrication2025! Here all our contributions from @uni-wuerzburg.de, presenting many of our #meltelectrowriting and #bioprinting projects. 🌟Can't wait to see you all there!🌟

More recordings now available from our online summer school “Tissue engineering applications for space medicine”! Today we have “Radiation resistance in space” by Bjorn Baselet. 📽️ Watch his presentation at pulse-eic.eu/bjorn-basele... More videos coming soon! Follow us to stay in the loop. 🔔

Bjorn Baselet – Online Summer School recording - PULSE

Captioned video of the talk “Radiation resistance in space” by Bjorn Baselet, radiobiologist and space health researcher at SCK CEN.

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Recordings from our online summer school are available now – exploring tissue engineering applications for space medicine!Watch them and browse the Q&As from day 1 of our week long discussions at pulse-eic.eu/online-summe... Follow our @horizoneu.bsky.social project for upcoming recordings! ▶️

PULSE Online Summer School

Our EU-funded project invites students, early-career researchers, and professionals to explore tissue engineering and space medicine.

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ℹ️ NEW TALK DATE: If you are joining our summer school, please know that Damian Miles Bailey’s talk will now take place this Friday 29 August at the same time, from 14:00 to 15:00 CEST. Join us to hear Damian’s talk on “Mind over Mars: pushing the brain's limits” 🔴 🧠

✅ Registration is now open for #ESAOpenDays (12 September) at ESA ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany 👇 www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA...

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Tickets für den ESA-Tag der Offenen Tür im ESOC sind jetzt erhältlich! Mehr dazu: www.esa.int/Space_in_Mem...