Sentences with phrase «after microgravity»

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Even after the cells were taken out of microgravity for up to 30 generations before being combined with the control strain, they maintained 72 per cent of their adaptive advantage, pointing to permanent mutations in the genes rather than merely a temporary adjustment.

But the team is wary of upsetting the lander, which came to rest in a precarious position on its side in November after bouncing around the comet in its microgravity environment.

He says that, after impact, the lander may have flown as high as 1 kilometer back into space (this is microgravity, after all) before returning again to the comet.

Launched last week, communication was lost after just a few days and the fate of its passengers — five geckos, which would be filmed throughout the flight to see how microgravity affected their fertility and offspring; a load of fruit flies; mushrooms and microbes — was unknown.

For her Ph.D., Dunbar turned her attention to the effects of microgravity on bone strength, graduating in 1983 from the University of Houston after adding a biological science to her list of qualifications.

Researchers led by the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University sought to determine how microgravity and micro-geomagnetic fields would affect the growth and regeneration of planarian flatworms (D. japonica) and whether any changes would persist after the worms returned to earth.

Even after being out of microgravity for up to 30 generations, they kept 72 per cent of their advantage, pointing to permanent mutations rather than merely a temporary adjustment (NPJ Microgravity, domicrogravity for up to 30 generations, they kept 72 per cent of their advantage, pointing to permanent mutations rather than merely a temporary adjustment (NPJ Microgravity, doMicrogravity, doi.org/b7kq).

After the cells adapted, they were combined with another strain of E. coli that had not been subjected to microgravity.

Madhan Tirumalai at the University of Houston in Texas placed E. coli cells in a rotating vessel to simulate microgravity for 1000 bacterial generations, after which they had gained 16 genetic mutations.

After three meetings this month, the fledgling club has reviewed projects flown in the CLOµDS 2011 campaign, performed ground - based trials of their teachers» experiments, and began the process of brainstorming to create their very own microgravity experiment that will fly in the 2012 campaign.