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Research to Study Liver Regeneration in Space will fly on SpaceX CRS-29
Nov 03, 2023 (SPX)
With more than 100,000 people on the transplant list and not enough organs to go around, researchers are turning to the International Space Station (ISS) Nation...
Medical team draws up plans for astronauts
Oct 31, 2023 (XNA)
However, a few well-trained professionals always wish that their expertise is never needed. They are doctors and nurses from the Manned Spaceflight Medical Supp...
Mouse embryos grown in space for first time: Japan researchers
Oct 29, 2023 (AFP)
The researchers, including Teruhiko Wakayama, professor of University of Yamanashi's Advanced Biotechnology Centre, and a team from the Japan Aerospace Space Ag...
Heart Cells in Space Help Advance Treatments for Cardiovascular Disease
Oct 20, 2023 (SPX)
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which can transform into many different cell types including heart cells, are at the forefront of regenerative medicine ...
Brain implants could restore paralyzed patients' arm movements
Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)
The treatment, a combination of a brain-computer interface and a spinal implant, had previously allow a paraplegic patient to walk again, a breakthrough that wa...
Spending time in space can harm the human body
Sep 20, 2023 (SPX)
However, traveling to space poses risks to the human body. Since NASA wants to send a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s, scientists need to find solutions for...
Engineered compound shows promise in preventing bone loss in space
Sep 19, 2023 (SPX)
Microgravity-induced bone loss has long been a critical concern for long-term space missions. Decreased mechanical loading due to microgravity induces bone loss...
Fitness tracker beyond Earth
Sep 18, 2023 (ESA)
Understanding how the human body copes with microgravity is the focus of many experiments on the International Space Station. While it takes about two weeks for...
ChatGPT diagnoses ER patients 'like a human doctor': study
Sep 13, 2023 (AFP)
But the report published Wednesday also stressed ER doctors needn't hang up their scrubs just yet, with the chatbot potentially able to speed up diagnosis but n...
How to prevent biofilms in space
Sep 08, 2023 (SPX)
In the experiment, researchers investigated a variety of surfaces treated in different ways and exposed to a bacteria called Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which is an...
Scientists grow human-like kidneys in pigs
Sep 07, 2023 (AFP)
But the development, described in a study in the journal Cell Stem Cell on Thursday, raises ethical issues -- especially since some human cells were also found ...
A good night's sleep in orbit
Sep 04, 2023 (ESA)
Astronauts on the Space Station do a full circle of Earth every 90 minutes and experience 16 sunsets and sunrises every day. With this unearthly routine, astron...
Electric eels hold clue to new way to stimulate human cells
Aug 30, 2023 (UPI)
Research published Tuesday in the journal Nature shows scientists have developed a tiny type of battery that could be used to power devices embedded into human ...
How being in space impairs astronauts' immune system
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
The next steps in the exploration of space are human missions to the moon and to Mars. Space is an extremely hostile environment that poses threats to human hea...
Bioprinting tech could address critical health challenges in space
Aug 25, 2023 (SPX)
Bioprinting involves using specialised 3D printers to print living cells creating new skin, bone, tissue or organs for transplantation. The technique has the po...
Space travel depletes red blood cells and bone, but fats may help
Aug 22, 2023 (SPX)
"We found that astronauts had significantly less fat in their bone marrow about a month after returning to Earth," said senior study author Dr. Guy Trudel, a re...
What happens if someone dies beyond Earth
Aug 04, 2023 (SPX)
Given how complicated human spaceflight is, it's actually remarkable how few people have lost their lives so far. But NASA plans to send a crew to the Moon in 2...
Multi-levitation bioprinting of heart models for space exploration and medicine
Jul 27, 2023 (SPX)
By combining magnetic and acoustic levitation into an innovative bioprinting platform, PULSE's device should be capable of achieving unparalleled spatiotemporal...
Space travel alters gene expression in white blood cells, weakening our immune system
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
"Here we show that the expression of many genes related to immune functions rapidly decreases when astronauts reach space, while the opposite happens when they ...
Long missions, frequent travel take a toll on astronauts' brains, study shows
Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)
Researchers studied brain scans of 30 astronauts from before and after space travel. Their findings, reported in Scientific Reports, reveal that the brain's ven...
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