Stem cells are getting ready to start
Russian scientists will launch a bioreactor with stem cells into orbit
Russian scientists are planning to launch a bioreactor into orbit to study stem cells in space. This was reported by Izvestia on July 11.
Spacecraft for biomedical research from the Bion series
Scientists of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University plan to launch the reactor in March 2018. To do this, they received a license from Roscosmos to conduct research and experiments outside the Earth.
Scientists intend to conduct an experiment in orbit that will study the impact of flight on the survival of stem cells. The essence of the experiments is to determine how the properties of cell cultures change during space flight. The researchers want to find out what effect conditions outside the Earth have on the functioning of mesenchymal stromal cells.
It is noted that experiments in orbit are designed to further help in the treatment of astronauts from those negative effects that followed as a result of long flights.
"Space biology arose because the conditions outside our planet are completely different. Our body, adapted to life on the surface of the Earth, will function differently in space, cells have completely different interactions there," the publication quotes Mikhail Krasheninnikov, a leading researcher at the Department of Advanced Cellular Technologies at the University.
According to him, the goal is to solve the main problems that are associated with the fact that people cannot walk after returning from weightlessness – their muscles atrophy, and calcium is washed out of their bones. He also noted that the primary task is to create equipment that will provide conditions in space for the survival and growth of various mammalian cells.
The bioreactor has been developed since 2003. It is emphasized that the device has already been created, but today there is no equipment simulating conditions identical to those that exist inside the body. It is assumed that such equipment will work in zero gravity, on the Ground, and in conditions of increased gravity.
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11.07.2017