The fascination with space and human spaceflight has significantly increased in recent years. Nevertheless, microgravity has a significant impact on humans. Immune and red blood cells utilize hematic or lymphatic […]
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Prolonged Exposure To Hypergravity Increases Biomass and Alters Biomass Allocation in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh
Previous studies have already shown that plants can complete their life cycle under microgravity. However, the effects of long-term exposure to altered gravity conditions, including microgravity, on most of the […]
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The Extremotolerant Desert Moss Syntrichia caninervis Is A Promising Pioneer Plant For Colonizing Extraterrestrial Environments
Many plans to establish human settlements on other planets focus on adapting crops to growth in controlled environments. However, these settlements will also require pioneer plants that can grow in […]
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Sustaining Hydrothermal Circulation With Gravity Relevant to Ocean Worlds
Some ocean worlds may sustain active, seafloor hydrothermal systems, but the characteristics and controls on fluid-heat transport in these systems are not well understood.
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Flight-Scope: Microscopy With Microfluidics In Microgravity
With the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA working to return humans to the moon and onwards to Mars, it has never been more important to study the impact of […]
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GLARE: Discovering Hidden Patterns In Spaceflight Transcriptome Using Representation Learning
Spaceflight studies present novel insights into biological processes through exposure to stressors outside the evolutionary path of terrestrial organisms. Despite limited access to space environments, numerous transcriptomic datasets from spaceflight […]
Posted inBiophysics, Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Gravitational Biology, Microbiology & Virology, Microgravity, Space Stations, Status Report
Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS) Completes Mission Operations
The Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS) project successfully completed on-orbit genomic sequencing of microbes isolated from the ISS on April 29.
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Offworld Biology Research Facilities: Life Science Glovebox In ISS Kibo Module
NASA astronaut and Expedition 70 Flight Engineer Loral O’Hara treats brain cell-like samples inside the Kibo laboratory module’s Life Science Glovebox aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #1,093 29 March 2024 (Space Life Science Research Results)
The abstract in PubMed or at the publisher’s site is linked when available and will open in a new window. Papers deriving from NASA support:
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Parallel Evolution Of Gravity Sensing
Omnipresent gravity affects all living organisms; it was a vital factor in the past and the current bottleneck for future space exploration. It is anticipated that all organisms can sense […]