A colony of roundworms, none longer than a millimeter, is now living aboard the International Space Station as part of an ...

Studies of plants and their responses to gravity and the space environment have concentrated on three main themes. The first is space horticulture, the study of how to grow plants successfully in ...

A crew of tiny worms will be heading on a mission to the International Space Station in 2026 that will help scientists understand how humans can travel through space safely, using a Leicester-built ...

The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies has greatly advanced the understanding of gene expression, tissue architecture, cellular composition, and disease mechanisms within ...

The Helogen HEL-IOS™ orbital biomedical operating system will be integrated in the Starlab space station to enable continuous, autonomous biological discovery in low Earth orbit. HEL-IOS™ enables ...

The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the most unique environments where life has ever existed, out in the low orbit of Earth. And research out today finds that bacteriophages—the viruses ...

In October of last year, Jeff Bezos told a crowd in a sizable conference room in Turin that millions of people would live in space in a few decades. Not as a ...

The preceding chapters present recommendations for research and research priorities in a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields relevant to space biology and medicine. This chapter ...