Tag: Biology
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Human muscle cells come back from space, look aged
Muscle-on-chip systems are three-dimensional human muscle cell bundles cultured on collagen scaffolds. A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station to study the muscle atrophy commonly observed in astronauts. It turns out that space triggers processes in human muscles that eerily resemble something we know very well: getting…
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Allen Institute takes on a supporting role in experiment to grow stem cells in space
A live colony of human induced pluripotent stem cells fills the screen of a microscope. (Allen Institute Photo) Space: The final frontier … for stem cells? Seattle’s Allen Institute for Cell Science says cells from its collection are going into space for the first time on a private mission to the International Space Station. The…