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Should you eat sugar in space?

Misty Thomas

Jun 02, 2022

Bones in space: understanding past to move forward

Mariya Stavnichuk

May 05, 2020

The behavior of human blood vessel lining cells under a simulated space

Pavitra Kumar and 1 other

Aug 14, 2020

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Fitness to fly - Travel to Mars

Advances in space technology mean space travel will become more common for tourists as spaceflight passengers and for people looking to set up bases to explore the Moon and Mars. But can we study how space tourists, potentially with age and lifestyle-related chronic conditions will fare in space?

Lex van Loon

Aug 18, 2022

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Sorrel Bunting

Jul 22, 2022

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Preventing muscle loss in microgravity conditions

Our paper entitled, ''Mitigating sarcoplasmic reticulum stress limits disuse-induced muscle loss in hindlimb unloaded mice'' recently published in the NPJ Microgravity journal unravels the therapeutic potential of a drug to prevent muscle loss in microgravity conditions.

Rizwan Qaisar and 1 other

Jul 20, 2022

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Carrie Webster

Jul 11, 2022

Leveraging 3D printing technology to advance cancer mechanobiology research in simulated microgravity

Proposals to enhance satellite-based gravitational field recovery

The Gravitational Recovery And Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission provides incredibly accurate measurements of changes in the Earth's gravitational field; important for climate scientists, oceanographers and geologists. In our paper, we propose new techniques to enhance such missions.

Lorcan Conlon and 1 other

Jun 09, 2022

Should you eat sugar in space?

Leveraging 3D printing technology to advance cancer mechanobiology research in simulated microgravity

Giulia Silvani

Jun 06, 2022

Wickless Heat Pipes, Explosive Nucleation, and Multi-phase Cooling in Microgravity

Should you eat sugar in space?

Misty Thomas

Jun 02, 2022

Droplet Dynamics, Coalescence, and Mobility in Space

Wickless Heat Pipes, Explosive Nucleation, and Multi-phase Cooling in Microgravity

Joel Plawsky

Apr 29, 2022

Mental imagery of object motion in weightlessness

Droplet Dynamics, Coalescence, and Mobility in Space

Susan Daniel

Feb 23, 2022

Mental imagery of object motion in weightlessness

Myrka Zago

Jan 31, 2022

Microgravity and bone physiology: Impacts on skeletal stem/progenitors.

Our paper entitled “Transcriptional responses of skeletal stem/progenitor cells to hindlimb unloading and recovery correlate with localized but not systemic multi-systems impacts” just published in npj Microgravity, reveals how simulated microgravity alters bone at the stem/progenitor level.

Donald G Phinney

Dec 06, 2021

A magnetic levitation based low-gravity simulator with an unprecedented large functional volume

Fine-tuning mechanism of "body building" in space microgravity environment with epigenetic modifications

Our paper entitled "Histone deacetylase HDA-4-mediated epigenetic regulation in space-flown C. elegans” just published in npj Microgravity, demonstrates a novel epigenetic modification in response to microgravity environment of space-grown C. elegans.

Atsushi Higashitani

Nov 16, 2021

Next generation cooling devices for Space applications: insights of boiling heat transfer

A magnetic levitation based low-gravity simulator with an unprecedented large functional volume

Wei Guo

Nov 10, 2021

Enhancing biological performance by preventive and regenerative interventions for making humanity multiplanetary: Step 1 an antioxidant cocktail

Next generation cooling devices for Space applications: insights of boiling heat transfer

Alekos Ioannis Garivalis

Oct 14, 2021

Findings from recent studies by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency examining musculoskeletal atrophy in space and on Earth

Enhancing biological performance by preventive and regenerative interventions for making humanity multiplanetary: Step 1 an antioxidant cocktail

Andrés Caicedo

Sep 23, 2021

Findings from recent studies by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency examining musculoskeletal atrophy in space and on Earth

Masahiro Chatani and 2 others

May 26, 2021

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A Once-in-a-Decade Opportunity: Biological & Physical Sciences Decadal Survey

Springer Nature is celebrating one million gold OA articles

Carrie Webster

Jul 11, 2022

Nature Research npj Microgravity

A Once-in-a-Decade Opportunity: Biological & Physical Sciences Decadal Survey

Craig Kundrot

Mar 16, 2020

Livestream | The Microbiology of Human Spaceflight: A Nature Conference

Heather Dunphy

Jun 26, 2019

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Fitness to fly - Travel to Mars

Lex van Loon

Aug 18, 2022

Preventing muscle loss in microgravity conditions

Rizwan Qaisar and 1 other

Jul 20, 2022

Proposals to enhance satellite-based gravitational field recovery

Lorcan Conlon and 1 other

Jun 09, 2022

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Fitness to fly - Travel to Mars

Lex van Loon

Aug 18, 2022

Express assessment of neurotoxicity of particles of planetary and interstellar dust

Supplying a pharmacy for NASA exploration spaceflight: challenges and current understanding

Rebecca Suzanne Blue

Jun 13, 2019

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Express assessment of neurotoxicity of particles of planetary and interstellar dust

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Feb 18, 2019

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Jun 04, 2020

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Ruth Milne

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