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SPACEFLIGHT AND IMMUNE RESPONSE
In 2015, fruit flies were sent to International Space Station to study how microgravity and the space environment affect the innate immune systemIn 2015, fruit flies were sent to International Space Station to study how microgravity and the space environment affect the innate immune ...
NASA sent a 77-year-old payload specialist back into space in 1998, 36 years after he became the first American to orbit Earth - not just to make history again, but to study how an older human body responds to microgravity, becoming the oldest person ever to fly in spaceJohn Glenn returned to space aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1998. He became the oldest person to travel into space at age seventy-seven. N...
On STS-51B, NASA flew 24 rats and 2 squirrel monkeys with Spacelab-3; one monkey showed space sickness while the rats returned with muscle lossIn 1985, Challenger carried rats and monkeys to study microgravity's effects. One monkey experienced space sickness, mirroring human astron...
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla back on terra firma after 18-day space expeditionThe SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying Group Captain Shubanshu Shukla and three other crew members splashed down off the coast of San Diego, Ca...
- NASA to launch E. Coli into space to study antibiotic resistance
Washington, Nov 11 (IANS) To study microgravity's effect on bacterial antibiotic resistance, scientists are set to send E. coli, a common b...
- Orbital ATK resupply mission launches to space station
Washington, Oct 18 (IANS) US aerospace firm Orbital ATK launched its sixth resupply mission carrying NASA cargo to the International Space ...
Spaceflight may age immune system in astronauts prematurelyFrippiat and colleagues in the study used a ground-based model called hindlimb unloading (or HU), that simulates some of the effects of spa...
Space research to help humans fight illnesses on EarthNew research on leukocytes - human defence cells - seeks to understand how these tiny warriors mount their defence, researchers said.