This perspective article explores the transformative potential of biomanufacturing in low Earth orbit (LEO) for regenerative medicine.
Astropharmacy / Biotechnology
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Offworld Biomedical Research Inside A Microgravity Science Glovebox
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Jonny Kim conducts research operations inside the Destiny laboratory module’s Microgravity Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station.
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Exploring The Potential Of A Bioassembler For Protein Crystallization In Space
Protein crystallization holds paramount significance in structural biology, serving as a pivotal technique for unveiling the three-dimensional (3D) architecture of proteins.
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Orbital Biotechnology Research
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut and Expedition 73 Commander Takuya Onishi processes cassettes containing biological fluid samples for installation inside the Advanced Space Experiment Processor-4, a research facility that […]
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230 New Giant Viruses Discovered That Shape Earth’s Oceans
Giant viruses play a role in the survival of single-celled marine organisms called protists. These include algae, amoeba, and flagellates, that form the base of ocean food webs. And since […]
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Basecamp Research Announces Breakthrough Discovery of Over One Million New Species
Yielding Enormous New Database Purpose-Built for Generative Foundation Models in Biology Basecamp Research, an AI company dedicated to using nature to solve the most pressing challenges in the life sciences, […]
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Microbiology In An Orbital Glovebox
NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Nichole Ayers works in the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Sciences Glovebox processing bacteria samples before viewing them inside a 3D imaging microscope called […]
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Light-to-electricity Nanodevice Reveals How Earth’s Oldest Surviving Cyanobacteria Worked
An international team of scientists have unlocked a key piece of Earth’s evolutionary puzzle by decoding the structure of a light-harvesting “nanodevice” in one of the planet’s most ancient lineages […]
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Astronaut Anne McClain Conducts Offworld Space Botany Research
Anne McClain: How does space radiation affect plants? NASA’s Advanced Plant EXperiment-12 (APEX-12) seeks to find out.
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Evidence For A Polar Circumbinary Exoplanet Orbiting A Pair Of Eclipsing Brown Dwarfs
One notable example of exoplanet diversity is the population of circumbinary planets, which orbit around both stars of a binary star system.