Astronauts experience loss of muscle and bone mass along with space motion sickness upon returning to earth. This is due to distinctive properties present in space, which are not found on earth, including microgravity and radiation from cosmic rays. Previous biological research on space missions has revealed interesting changes to cellular, animal and human models (Becker and Souza, 2013) . Therefore, such research is considered particularly important to deepen our understanding of biological effects in space. As space research is expensive, due to the cost of travelling on space rockets, smaller satellite models such as the BAMMSat (developed by David Cullen at Cranfield University) are actively being developed to allow more frequent and inexpensive biological experiments in space. This project aims to optimise cell culture in this system to use in the future for space biological research.
Jumaa, Naz
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Year: 2017
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