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Blood disc for astronaut diagnosis
Dec 10, 2021 (ESA)
Future long duration space missions beyond Earth orbit will see crews isolated as never before. Astronauts will have to be self-sufficient in healthcare as in e...
Medical experiments in space
Nov 12, 2021 (SPX)
The coordination of individual projects falls under the remit of the national space program of the German Space Agency at German Aerospace Center (DLR) and will...
'Smart bandage' could monitor wound healing, researchers say
Oct 25, 2021 (UPI)
The device, which is equipped with a sensor designed to measure wound moisture levels and transmit the data to a nearby smartphone, without requiring removal of...
Netizens' worries answered over female astronauts' health
Oct 19, 2021 (XNA)
Along with two male astronauts, Wang Yaping, the mother of a 5-year-old girl, entered Tianhe on Oct 16, and she will be the first Chinese woman to stay there fo...
Research to boost astronaut health for future space missions
Oct 18, 2021 (SPX)
The research, which uses the low gravity (microgravity) environment of the International Space Station and other facilities that provide similar conditions to s...
From Covid to cancer: High hopes for 'versatile' mRNA
Oct 15, 2021 (AFP)
These types of jabs are new but researchers have been working for decades to try to figure out how to use messenger RNA for other vaccinations and to treat illn...
In the face of neurotechnology advances, Chile passes 'neuro rights' law
Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)
This bill, which already passed the Senate last year, could form the basis of future lawmaking in field of human rights in other countries in the face of advanc...
SpaceX CRS-23 Dragon returns experiments on brain, muscles, liver to Earth
Sep 29, 2021 (SPX)
Dragon undocks from the space station Sept. 30 and is scheduled for splashdown near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida hours later. Two rings to shear them ...
Machine learning helps scientists pinpoint 'genes of importance'
Sep 24, 2021 (UPI)
Computers and access to large databases of genomic data, however, allow researchers to study gene functionality more efficiently. Still, mining massive amounts ...
Space Health Institute Releases Postdoctoral Fellowship Solicitation
Sep 24, 2021 (SPX)
TRISH's postdoctoral fellowship program supports early-career scientists pursuing innovative, breakthrough research with the potential to reduce spaceflight ass...
Studying thermophoresis in space
Sep 20, 2021 (SPX)
A multidisciplinary trio from Lehigh's P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science recently received $400,000 from the National Science Foundation (N...
Affordable housing in outer space: Scientists develop cosmic concrete from space dust and astronaut blood
Sep 14, 2021 (SPX)
In their study, published in Materials Today Bio, a protein from human blood, combined with a compound from urine, sweat or tears, could glue together simulated...
Toward better space health: Understanding the effects of microgravity on P-glycoprotein
Sep 14, 2021 (SPX)
It should come as no surprise that astronauts resort to various drugs to ameliorate the symptoms caused by microgravity. Unfortunately for them, microgravity ha...
Smart T-shirt measures astronauts' vital signs
Sep 10, 2021 (SPX)
This wireless communications network can receive sensor data and use the transit times of radio signals to determine the position of objects in the ISS. It can ...
Space Health Institute launches the first commercial spaceflight medical research program
Sep 08, 2021 (SPX)
As a partner to the NASA Human Research Program, the Institute helps solve health and performance challenges for human deep space exploration by finding and fun...
ISRO developing microbe cultivation device for orbital biological experiments
Sep 07, 2021 (Sputnik)
Scientific representatives from one of India's premiere institutes, the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), partnering with the country's space agency, Indian S...
Mini CRISPR system promises easier cell engineering, gene therapy
Sep 03, 2021 (UPI)
The technology, described Friday in the journal Molecular Cell, promises to make cell-engineering more effective and efficient. The world's most popular and pow...
Implantable drug delivery devices goes remote onboard the ISS
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
Grattoni, professor and chair of the Department of Nanomedicine at the Houston Methodist Research Institute, currently leads a team developing the next generati...
University of Zurich and Airbus grow miniature human tissue on the International Space Station ISS
Aug 27, 2021 (SPX)
The process for the joint "3D Organoids in Space" project comes from Zurich scientists Oliver Ullrich and Cora Thiel, pioneers in research on how gravity influe...
Bio-inspired, blood-repelling tissue glue could seal wounds quickly
Aug 11, 2021 (SPX)
The new paste can adhere to surfaces even when they are covered with blood, and can form a tight seal within about 15 seconds of application. Such a glue could ...
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