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Studying DNA Breaks to Protect Future Space Travelers
May 13, 2019 (SPX)
An organism carries all of its genetic information in its deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA. This blueprint for life takes the form of specific sequences of nitrogen...
Like submicroscopic spacecrafts: graphene flakes to control neuron activity
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
With the researcher, Rossana Rauti, Ballerini is responsible for the study recently published in the journal "Nano Letters". Measuring just one millionth of a m...
UA Partners With Space Tango to Test Diagnostic Tool in Space
May 09, 2019 (SPX)
Led by Frederic Zenhausern, director of the UA Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine, the project has received three independent NASA grants. The lates...
Vital signs can now be monitored using radar
May 05, 2019 (SPX)
Housed in a device smaller than a cellphone, the new technology records heart and breathing rates using sensitive radar waves that are analyzed by sophisticated...
ESA explores ageing process in space
May 05, 2019 (ESA)
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft lifted off Saturday from Cape Canaveral, in the United States, destined for the International Space Station. Among its cargo are livi...
Scientists model DNA gene with first billion-atom biomolecular simulation
Apr 23, 2019 (UPI)
The feat, described this month in the Journal of Computational Chemistry, could help scientists better understand diseases and develop cures. "It is important t...
Mice show off microgravity athleticism after arriving on ISS
Apr 18, 2019 (Sputnik)
NASA's findings, which were released last week, show that the chosen rodents engaged in typical mouse behaviors while housed in the three modules that make up t...
Next-generation gene drive arrives
Apr 15, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of California San Diego have now developed a new version of a gene drive that opens the door to the spread of specific, favorable s...
Astronaut twins study yields new insights and portable DNA sequencing tools
Apr 12, 2019 (SPX)
Dr. Christopher Mason, an associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine, led one of 10 teams of scientists chosen by NASA to compar...
NASA's Landmark Twins Study Reveals Resilience of Human Body in Space
Apr 12, 2019 (SPX)
The Twins Study provides the first integrated biomolecular view into how the human body responds to the spaceflight environment, and serves as a genomic steppin...
NASA Twins Study finds spaceflight affects gut bacteria
Apr 12, 2019 (SPX)
Gut health affects digestion, metabolism and immunity; and, more recently, changes in the microbiome have been linked to changes in bones, muscles and the brain...
NASA's 'Twins Study,' landmark research for an eventual Mars mission
Apr 11, 2019 (AFP)
US astronaut Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station while his identical twin Mark Kelly, also a former NASA astronaut, stayed on the ground...
Stargazing Technology Used To Spot Cancer
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
Cancers are often missed on traditional 2D X-rays so are sometimes only discovered later when the disease is more advanced and difficult to treat. Now experts h...
Cold plasma can kill 99.9% of airborne viruses
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
They hope to one day harness this capability to replace a century-old device: the surgical mask. The U-M engineers have measured the virus-killing speed and eff...
Cold plasma can kill 99.9% of airborne viruses
Apr 09, 2019 (SPX)
They hope to one day harness this capability to replace a century-old device: the surgical mask. The U-M engineers have measured the virus-killing speed and eff...
Engineering cellular function without living cells
Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)
Scientists usually study gene expression by introducing specific DNA sequences into cells and observing how the cells react. But this labor-intensive method is ...
In vivo data show effects of spaceflight microgravity on stem cells and tissue regeneration
Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)
This valuable in vivo data has implications for understanding and managing the ability for repair and regeneration of human tissues during spaceflight. The revi...
Will cyborgs be made from melanin? Pigment breakthrough enables biocompatible electronics
Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)
In a landmark study published in Frontiers in Chemistry, Italian researchers subtly modified the structure of eumelanin by heating it in a vacuum. "Our process ...
Testing the value of artificial gravity for astronaut health
Mar 22, 2019 (ESA)
Carried out at the German Aerospace Center's (DLR) :envihab facility, the long-term bedrest study is the first of its kind to be conducted in partnership betwee...
Superbugs have colonized the International Space Station
Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)
Extreme spaceflight conditions can force these bacteria to toughen up, while simultaneously lowering the immune defenses of the stressed, isolated crew. These e...
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