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Studying Cells in Space

Some aspects of life function differently in space, and biologists can learn a lot about how it impacts human health by studying cells grown in the microgravity environment, or weightlessness, of the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 63 Flight Engineer Doug Hurley works on science hardware inside the International Space Station's U.S. Destiny laboratory. The Multi-use Variable-g Platform is a research facility that can produce up to 2 g of artificial gravity for biological studies of fruit flies, flatworms, plants, fish, cells, protein crystals and many others.

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Culture of neural stem cells from the Bioscience-04 mission.

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For more information about the Cell Science project, please contact the NASA Ames newsroom.

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