Cell Science in Space: Healthy Solutions for Soldiers and Astronauts

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LabTV (NDEP) video features an experiment created at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and blasted into space aboard the Space Shuttle is helping design better ways to treat injured soldiers and keep astronauts healthier.

Astronauts and Injured Soldiers Lose Muscle Mass

Astronauts working in low gravity and the traumatically injured can both suffer from wasting, a condition where bone and muscle mass deteriorate. The automated Cell Culture Module aboard the Space Station helps study what is happening.

By comparing cells grown in space and on Earth, biomedical engineers like Alison Garcia at Walter Reed are learning how to treat wasting and other diseases associated with growing old.

This entry was posted on Monday, June 6th, 2011 at 4:12 pm. It is filed under Space Science and tagged with , , , , . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

4 Responses to “Cell Science in Space: Healthy Solutions for Soldiers and Astronauts”

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