Sentences with phrase «microgravity affects»

Back inside the orbital lab, the Expedition 54 crew researched how microgravity affects muscles to help humans on Earth.

Kelly is one half of nasa's Twins Study, an investigation into how life in microgravity affects physiology.

Returning investigation samples will demonstrate how life in microgravity affects the growth of plant seedlings, changes to the human body, the behavior of semiconductors and detergents, and more.

«We have already demonstrated that microgravity affects cell shape and behavior,» said Nielsen.

Northland Preparatory Academy students in Flagstaff, Arizona, will analyze how microgravity affects onion cell DNA replication.

«This possibility, combined with what we already know about how microgravity affects muscles and bones, paints a very bleak future for human space flight unless we start to develop effective countermeasures.»

St. Peter's School students in Kansas City, Missouri, want to determine how microgravity affects oxidation, which could rust the interior and exterior of spacecraft.

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.

Not exact matches

However, microgravity can reduce cell growth, alter gene expression and change the pattern of root growth — all aspects which critically affect plant cultivation in space.

Japanese researchers shipped freeze - dried mouse sperm to the orbiting International Space Station and stored it there for nine months to find out how microgravity and cosmic radiation would affect mice born from the cells.

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.

«The Medaka experiment finding of new genes affected by microgravity provides a good animal model to clarify this mechanism.»

MRI scans done on more than 20 astronauts reveal new results on how microgravity can affect the human brain.

One mission of the Microbial Observatory Experiments on the International Space Station is to examine the traits and diversity of fungal isolates, to gain a better understanding of how fungi may adapt to microgravity environments and how this may affect interactions with humans in closed habitats.

The Expedition 55 crew explored a wide variety of life science today studying how different biological systems are affected by long - term exposure to microgravity.

The challenge of microgravity also extends to biology, and a metabolic tracking project will look into how it affects various medicines.