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Investigation Tests Drug to Activate Immune System, Help Fight Cancer
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
The Efficacy and Metabolism of Azonafide Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs) in Microgravity investigation seeks to activate immunogenic cell death within the cance...
Space-traveling flatworms help scientists enhance understanding of regenerative health
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers led by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University sought to determine how microgravity and micro-geomagnetic fields would affect the growth and ...
Cell Cultures Go For the Gold
Jun 09, 2017 (SPX)
The Magnetic 3D Cell Culturing investigation applies the Earth-based technique of using magnetic forces to handle cell cultures in the microgravity environment ...
Georgia State neuroscientists rewire brain of 1 species to have connectivity of another
Jun 05, 2017 (SPX)
Neurons are connected to each other to form networks that underlie behaviors. Drs. Akira Sakurai and Paul Katz of Georgia State's Neuroscience Institute study t...
NASA 1-year mission investigators identify links to vision problems
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Nutritional Biochemistry Lab lead Scott M. Smith, Ph.D., takes a broad look at biochemistry. He studies the astronaut diets along with protein, vitamin, mineral...
CRISPR gene editing can cause hundreds of unintended mutations
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
"We feel it's critical that the scientific community consider the potential hazards of all off-target mutations caused by CRISPR, including single nucleotide mu...
Nanosubmarine with self-destroying activity
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
Self-propelling nanovesicles are attractive transport vehicles for drugs. If they are fueled by hydrogen peroxide, these vesicles can take up directed motion re...
Engines of twingenuity: NASA's twin study investigators have a meeting of the minds
May 28, 2017 (SPX)
It includes researching proteins, metabolites, gut microbes, telomeres, RNA (ribonucleic acid), epigenomes and how all the various molecules interact in the hum...
Space babies: study suggests humans may be able to have healthy offspring in orbit
May 24, 2017 (The Conversation)
This is because a range of animals from fruit flies to fish - as well as their eggs, sperm and embryos - have been sent into space so we can study how they repr...
Mouse sperm survives in space, but could human babies?
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
But could the same hold true for humans? And if conception were even possible in space, would babies born in zero gravity develop differently than their Earth-b...
New gelatin devices that imitate the activity of the body in bone regeneration
May 17, 2017 (SPX)
The NanoBioCel group in the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Pharmacy has developed one of these scaffolds, or matrices, for cases of critical bone defects, like those that...
Researchers create anticancer nanomaterials by simulating underwater volcanic conditions
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers have created these size-tailored nanoclusters by making use of the Leidenfrost effect. It is an event commonly observed in the kitchen while coo...
Astronauts experience decrease in blood vessel function during spaceflight
May 10, 2017 (SPX)
Carl Ade, assistant professor of exercise physiology, and collaborators partnered with the Johnson Space Center to find that astronauts' exercise capacity decre...
Monitoring the airways of space travelers
May 02, 2017 (ESA)
The Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, is analysing astronauts' exhaled air to probe lung health. The results so far have been breathtaking. The Airway...
Medical guidelines for astronauts to be launched in the US
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
Space travel and exploration have resulted in a variety of technological developments which have benefitted life on Earth - but could the experiences of humans ...
Human forebrain circuits under construction - in a dish
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Sergiu Pasca, M.D., of Stanford University, Stanford, California, a grantee of the NIH's National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), and colleagues, report on e...
Unique womb-like device could reduce mortality and disability for extremely premature babies
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
"Our system could prevent the severe morbidity suffered by extremely premature infants by potentially offering a medical technology that does not currently exis...
When Hollywood met neurosurgery
Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)
A report on the simulator that guides trainees through an endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) was published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics on Apr...
Chinese space scientists study human organs in space
Apr 23, 2017 (XNA)
Scientists from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) are conducting experiments on Tianzhou-1, which launched Thursday, to study th...
Scientists to test medicine for bone loss on Tianzhou-1
Apr 23, 2017 (XNA)
The main mission of Tianzhou-1 launched on Thursday is to test propellant refueling technology, which is crucial for the construction and operation of China's p...
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