ISS Results: Stem Cells in Space

From Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, explore the world of human spaceflight with NASA each week on the official podcast of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Listen to in-depth conversations with the astronauts, scientists and engineers who make it possible. For stem cell research, this microgravity environment has welcomed some fascinating experiments. A particular investigation called microgravity expanded stem cells was conducted on station from 2016 to 2017. The study looked at whether the unique space environment could expand human stem cells, which is a needed process for them to be used in various medical therapies. But in space, how does the expansion process change? The principal investigator of this study, Dr. Abba Zubair, co-authored a recently published research paper about the findings of this study.

Source: nasa.gov