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UCF College of Medicine joins partnership to study health impacts of space travel
Jun 01, 2023 (SPX)
The College of Medicine has partnered with the NASA-funded Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) to collect data and biospecimens from comme...
Musk's Neuralink says cleared for human test of brain implants
May 26, 2023 (AFP)
Neuralink said clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its first in-human clinical study is "an important first step" for its technology, w...
Around the bed in 60 days
May 24, 2023 (ESA)
A group of 12 volunteers are bracing themselves for a bedridden journey that put them into a compulsory reclined lifestyle. Participants are kept in beds tilted...
UCSD to test cancer drugs in space using private astronaut mission
May 24, 2023 (SPX)
Increasing evidence shows that microgravity conditions can accelerate aging, inflammation and immune dysfunction in human stem cells. Understanding this process...
USSPACECOM forum discusses need for space-savvy medical personnel
May 01, 2023 (SPX)
USSPACECOM Chief of Staff U.S. Navy RADM William Pennington provided opening comments and a mission brief, which kicked off important discussions about the medi...
AI better than humans at key heart test: study
Apr 05, 2023 (AFP)
While previous research has illustrated the potential power of AI models for reading medical scans, the authors of the new US study said it is the first blinded...
New insights into how cells respond to altered gravity experienced in space
Mar 29, 2023 (SPX)
The gravity conditions in space, known as microgravity, trigger a unique set of cellular stress responses. In the new work, researchers found that the protein m...
Tiny robot able to navigate in a physiological environment and capture damaged cells
Mar 28, 2023 (SPX)
The innovative technology was developed by Prof. Gilad Yossifon from the School of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tel Aviv U...
Electronic skin as flexible as crocodile skin
Mar 19, 2023 (SPX)
The team behind the research was led by Professor Kilwon Cho, Dr. Giwon Lee, and Dr. Jonghyun Son from the Department of Chemical Engineering at POSTECH, along ...
Space-bound heart tissue to aid aging and long-flight studies
Mar 09, 2023 (SPX)
The tissue samples will be launched into space aboard SpaceX CRS-27, a resupply mission to the International Space Station, slated for liftoff no earlier than T...
How does the immune system react to altered gravity?
Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)
Now, a paper published in the journal Acta Astronautica examines the effects on the human immune system of microgravity generated by a parabolic flight. After a...
Drugs from the deep: scientists explore ocean frontiers
Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)
A medicinal molecule could be found in microbes scooped up in sediment, be produced by porous sponges or sea squirts -- barrel-bodied creatures that cling to ro...
China uses two-photon microscope to capture cell images of astronauts
Mar 01, 2023 (XNA)
The event, the first of its kind worldwide, marked the success of the in-orbit verification experiments of the two-photon microscope, providing a promising tool...
Custom, 3D-printed heart replicas look and pump just like the real thing
Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)
MIT engineers are hoping to help doctors tailor treatments to patients' specific heart form and function, with a custom robotic heart. The team has developed a ...
Brain changes in fighter pilots may cast light on astronauts during space travel
Feb 16, 2023 (SPX)
They also showed differences in brain connectivity compared with non-pilots. The study will help us to understand the effects of space flight on the brain and m...
Studies on hibernating squirrels may help astronauts
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
Drew, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska was awarded funds though through NASA Space Grant. T...
DARPA team begins work on field deployable whole blood equivalent
Feb 01, 2023 (SPX)
Despite the Department of Defense's (DoD) extensive and highly effective blood program, rapid patient evacuation to a facility that has blood is not always an o...
NASA hands over female 'astronaut' phantoms safe and sound after flight to the Moon
Jan 19, 2023 (SPX)
Following the successful landing of the Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean on 11 December 2022, NASA has now handed over both measuring mannequins to the MARE r...
SimX awarded US Space Force contract to adapt VR Medical Simulation Training for astronaut applications
Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)
The initial $1.7M program commitment will focus on adapting the existing SimX Virtual Reality Medical Simulation System (VRMSS) to include space-specific compon...
First deep space biology experiment begins, follow along in real-time
Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)
On Dec. 5, BioSentinel was 655,730 miles from Earth when the BioSentinel team at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley sent commands to the...
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