Anne McClain: How does space radiation affect plants? NASA’s Advanced Plant EXperiment-12 (APEX-12) seeks to find out.
APEX-12
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Telomere Dynamics and Oxidative Stress in Arabidopsis in the Space Radiation Environment (APEX-12)
The APEX-12 spaceflight investigation is poised to unlock crucial insights into the effects of space radiation on genome integrity, telomere length, and telomerase activity via Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) accumulation […]
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Offworld Space Biology: Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space (GEARS)
The next launch of the SpaceX Dragon will be carrying four Space Biology experiments to the International Space Station; the GEARS microbial experiment, the APEX-12 plant experiment, CBIOMES host-microbiome study, […]