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NASA's one-year mission investigates how space affects astronauts' functional performance
Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)
NASA's Human Research Program wants to understand how spaceflight affects human physiological systems and functional performance to help identify the best count...
Astronauts don't develop anemia during spaceflight, NASA study suggests
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
Dr Richard Simpson; associate professor at The University of Arizona and the University of Houston, co-author of the study said: "There is an idea of 'space ane...
Medical camera makes light work of seeing through the body
Sep 12, 2017 (SPX)
The camera is designed to help doctors track medical tools known as endoscopes that are used to investigate a range of internal conditions. The new device is ab...
Weightlessness affects health of cosmonauts at molecular level
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
These changes are intended to help the body adapt and take place in all the major types of human cells, tissues, and organs. The results of the research have be...
NASA's twin study investigates metabolites
Aug 24, 2017 (SPX)
"Metabolomics measures small molecules called metabolites that reflect the physiology of the body, and can reveal specific details about you. Researchers can se...
NASA Breaks Ground on New Collaborative Biosciences Facility in Silicon Valley
Aug 24, 2017 (SPX)
The Biosciences Collaborative Facility will be a two-story, 40,000-square-foot building housing wet chemistry laboratories designed with the latest technology t...
Study finds that gravity, 'mechanical loading' are key to cartilage development
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
Now, in a study led by the University of Missouri, bioengineers have determined that microgravity may inhibit cartilage formation. Findings reveal that fracture...
Computer approaches human skill for first time in mapping brain
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
For more than a generation, people have been trying to improve understanding of human brain circuitry, but are challenged by its vast complexity. It is similar ...
UBC researcher looks to the future of bone replacements
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Hossein Montazerian, research assistant with UBC Okanagan's School of Engineering, has identified a way to model and create artificial bone grafts that can be c...
NASA sends mice to space station to study space travel health risks
Aug 15, 2017 (UPI)
Mice are biological similar to humans, yet relatively simple, physiologically speaking, which is why they an ideal model for human health studies. "Space biolog...
Engineers harness the power of 3-D printing to help train surgeons, shorten surgery times
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
In a recent study, researchers showed that allowing surgeons to prep on a 3D-printed model of the patient's hip joint cut by about 25 percent the amount of time...
New magnetic microbots can capture and carry single cells
Aug 07, 2017 (UPI)
The technology, called microbot origami, can be used to capture and carry single cells. "This research is about a topic of current interest -- active particles ...
Goodbye HERA, Hello Sleep: NASA's HERA XIII Crew Returns Home to Slumber
Jul 20, 2017 (SPX)
"The sleep deprivation was really difficult," said, James Titus, HERA crew member. "It really hindered our normalcy. We are used to working and living our lives...
Space station crystals to aid search for better antidotes for chemical agents
Jul 17, 2017 (UPI)
"With increasing worldwide concern about the use of chemical weapons, there is significant interest in developing better counteragents," David A. Jett, director...
Squeezing innovation out of the NASA Twins study
Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)
Innovative thinking could improve the way biological samples are processed and transported from space back to research labs on Earth for future studies. This th...
Houston team one step closer to growing capillaries
Jul 12, 2017 (SPX)
In a paper published online in the journal Biomaterials Science, a team from the laboratories of Rice bioengineer Jordan Miller and Baylor College of Medicine b...
Scientist Reveals Health Challenges That Flight to Mars Poses for Humans
Jun 28, 2017 (Sputnik)
Mars One is a project that aims to establish a permanent human settlement on Mars. It plans to land the first humans on Mars, who will then build a permanent hu...
Five projects selected from ISS funding opportunity focused on human physiology research
Jun 27, 2017 (SPX)
These initial five projects are part of a four-year collaboration through which NCATS will provide two-years of initial funding of approximately $6 million, to ...
Keeping the rhythm in space
Jun 22, 2017 (ESA)
Now researchers are learning how our internal clock similarly adjusts to the restrictions of space. An ESA-sponsored experiment has found that while you can tak...
Ten ways that astronauts are helping you stay healthy
Jun 21, 2017 (SPX)
1. Robots that can remove brain tumours Developed in Canada during the Space Shuttle era, Canadarm2 is a robotic arm that is attached to the outside of the Inte...
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