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Comments on PharmaSat Nano-Satellite Orbiting 'Lab'
Interesting experiment exapnds the role of very small, autonomous experimental 'labs'. (Read
the complete story)
| "NASA provides this information regarding the relevance of PharmaSat to its other spacecraft and exploration plans:
For safe, long-duration space missions, the debilitating effects of the environment such as bone density loss, muscle atrophy, and a stressed immune system must be addressed. In terrestrial medicine, powerful recent advances in therapeutics have come from detailed understanding of biological mechanisms and pathways at the molecular level. The miniaturization of the tools, methods, and liquid volumes of modern molecular biology, as well as the sensors, electronics, and processors necessary to implement sophisticated analytical measurement systems, is enabling autonomous systems that are particularly suitable to growing and analyzing microorganisms under challenging constraints of size and power. The GeneSat-1 platform and derivatives such as PharmaSat are ideal for executing a broad spectrum of research approaches to understand space-environment related effects in microorganisms. It is a particularly suitable family of platforms to evaluate potential countermeasure development. The use of low-cost, small-size, autonomous secondary payload concepts provides a means to study biological changes of fundamentally well- understood microorganisms and mammalian cells at the gene/protein level. Such knowledge will be key to the development of effective countermeasures to the deleterious effects of long-duration space travel. (From PharmaSat Flight Project [pdf])" (Bill Christensen 5/9/2009 7:47:17 PM) |
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