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Two Embry-Riddle Research Payloads Traveled to Suborbital Space on Blue Origin's New Shepard Rocket
Dec 15, 2017 (SPX)
The payload from Embry-Riddle's Daytona Beach Campus flew Dec. 12 on Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle to assess how microgravity impacts the cellular pro...
3-D printed microfibers could provide structure for artificially grown body parts
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
"We are trying to make stem-cell-loaded hydrogels reinforced with fibers like the rebar in cement," said Justin L. Brown, associate professor of biomedical engi...
Cells in space
Dec 12, 2017 (ESA)
Four biological experiments conducted in Europe's Columbus module on the Station are looking into how microgravity wears down muscle, retinal and stem cells to ...
Lobachevsky University scientists create a neurochip for replacing damaged areas of the brain
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
First experiments have been conducted to transmit signals from an artificial neuron to living cells of the brain slice, demonstrating the possibility of interfa...
World's smallest tape recorder is built from microbes
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers modified an ordinary laboratory strain of the ubiquitous human gut microbe Escherichia coli, enabling the bacteria to not only record their inte...
Biotemplates breakthrough paves way for cheaper nanobots
Dec 05, 2017 (SPX)
An international research team has demonstrated a new technique for plating silica onto flagella, the helix-shaped tails found on many bacteria, to produce nano...
NASA is sending E. coli to space for astronaut health
Nov 27, 2017 (SPX)
One of the agency's latest small satellite experiments is the E. coli Anti-Microbial Satellite, or EcAMSat, which will explore the genetic basis for how effecti...
Study unveils changes in the brain during extended missions in space
Nov 02, 2017 (SPX)
More people today are poised to explore space than ever before; those who do will experience the effects of microgravity on the human body. Recognizing the need...
NASA investigates use of medical-like tools to study samples of the solar system
Nov 01, 2017 (SPX)
In an effort designed to find creative uses of technology for future robotic and human missions to the Moon, Mars, and asteroids, NASA engineer Justin Jones use...
Advanced artificial limbs mapped in the brain
Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)
By its nature, TMSR changes the way the brain processes motor control and somatosensory input; however the detailed brain mechanisms have never been investigate...
NASA's twins study explores gene expression
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
"Some of the most exciting things that we've seen from looking at gene expression in space is that we really see an explosion, like fireworks taking off, as soo...
Space Station Crew Takes a Breather with Lung Tissue Investigation
Oct 25, 2017 (SPX)
Like a set of lungs, the Effect of Microgravity on Stem Cell Mediated Recellularization (Lung Tissue) investigation aboard the International Space Station is tw...
Monitoring microbes to keep Marsonauts healthy
Oct 06, 2017 (SPX)
Dr Petra Schwendner, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author of the study said: "Until now, little was known about the influence of long-term confinement ...
Your personal running coach
Oct 03, 2017 (ESA)
Drawing on ergonomic sensors inside a super-thin, textile insole and satnav tracking of running path and distance, the app continuously monitors activity and gu...
Telemedicine via satellite improves care at astronaut landings
Oct 03, 2017 (ESA)
Astronauts returning from space must readjust to life on Earth. Gravity influences the body's balance, cardiovascular functions, and especially the muscles, so ...
Better, cheaper bio-ink may be used to create artificial organs
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
Keekyoung Kim, an assistant professor at UBC Okanagan's School of Engineering, says this development can accelerate advances in regenerative medicine. Using tec...
The great escape: With mock space capsule, researchers partner with NASA to study astronaut fitness
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
It's all part of NASA's plan for further human exploration of the solar system, from a Mars mission to a deep space mission. The university research team - led ...
New synthetic molecule could trigger tissue regeneration
Sep 25, 2017 (UPI)
The scientists responsible for the new molecule believe their breakthrough could be used to turn stem cells into a variety of cell types -- paving the way for t...
Exploring the adaptation extremes of human high altitude sickness and fitness
Sep 25, 2017 (SPX)
But few have simultaneously explored the other extreme - maladaptation - in the form of chronic mountain sickness (CMS), also known as Monge's disease, which is...
Vitamin super-cocktail to combat 60 days of lying in bed
Sep 22, 2017 (ESA)
Ten volunteers will lie in beds with the head end tilted down 6 degreesmedes-space-clinic-meal-bedrest-volunteerfor 60 days, keeping at least one shoulder on th...
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