Microbiologists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are preparing experimental samples of fungi to send for a ride around the moon tentatively scheduled for later in 2021 or early 2022. […]
Gravitational Biology
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Spiders In Space: Without Gravity, Light Becomes Key To Orientation
Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school […]
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Studying How Plants Respond To Gravity
Plants are quicker to react and more sensitive than you might think – they can detect light changes in a fraction of a second and can bend towards light sources […]
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Why Plants Are So Sensitive To Gravity
If you tilt a plant, it will alter its growth to bend back upwards. But how does it detect the inclination? With cellular clinometers: cells filled with microscopic grains of […]
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Space Biologists Thora Halstead and Ken Souza Honored Aboard The International Space Station
A small plant growth chamber orbiting in space was remotely dedicated in Cleveland Saturday evening. At the annual meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research (ASGSR) it […]
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Using Microgravity To Understand Plant Growth
How do plants know which way is up? This might seem like an obvious question, but how exactly does a plant know which way to grow its roots and which […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Gravitational Biology, Microgravity
Fruit Fly Immunity Fails with Fungus After Spaceflight
In a study published in PLOS ONE, researchers led by Deborah Kimbrell, Ph.D., at UC Davis and their collaborators, studied how microorganisms may alter fruit flies’ immunity in space and […]
Posted inBiophysics, Extremeophiles and Extreme Environments, Gravitational Biology, Microbiology & Virology, Microgravity, Panspermia, Space Stations
Space Station Research Studies Exposure Of Life To Vacuum of Space
In the movies, humans often fear invaders from Mars. These days, scientists are more concerned about invaders to Mars, in the form of micro-organisms from Earth. Three recent scientific papers […]
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International Space Biology Research Mission
NASA and the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, are collaborating on a space biology mission aboard an unmanned Russian biosatellite to understand better the mechanisms of how life adapts […]
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ASGSB: Open Journal System web site for Gravitational and Space Biology is now active
Dear Colleagues: The Open Journal System web site for Gravitational and Space Biology is now active, and we would like to encourage manuscript submissions of all kinds. A tutorial of […]