Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or tissue chip, engineered from your own cells, could reveal how your body will respond to cosmic radiation and the weightlessness of space. As […] The post An astronaut’s tiny stand-in: tissue chips in space health appeared first on SpaceNews.
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An astronaut’s tiny stand-in: tissue chips in space health
Before you ever set foot on a spacecraft bound for deep space, tiny replicas of your organs might make the journey first. Suspended in microgravity aboard a research mission, this organ-on-a-chip, or tissue chip, engineered from your own cells, could reveal how your body will respond to cosmic radiation and the weightlessness of space. As […] The post An astronaut’s tiny stand-in: tissue chips in space health appeared first on SpaceNews.
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