SPACE MEDICINE - BIOTECHNOLOGY DAILY

Feb 18, 2013 (UPI)

A Russian satellite that will conduct biological experiments in space and its launch rocket have been delivered to the Baikonur space center, officials said. As...

Flies to hitch ride into space for heart study

Jan 29, 2013 (SPX)

Peter H.U. Lee, MD, is reaching for the stars. The Stanford heart surgeon has combined his twin passions - medicine and outer space - in a joint proposal for an...

Simulated Mars mission reveals body's sodium rhythms

Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)

Clinical pharmacologist Jens Titze, M.D., knew he had a one-of-a-kind scientific opportunity: the Russians were going to simulate a flight to Mars, and he was i...

Station Spinal Ultrasounds Seeking Why Astronauts Grow Taller in Space

Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)

Did you ever wish you could be just a teensy bit taller? Well, if you spend a few months in space, you could get your wish -- temporarily. It is a commonly know...

Houston, we have another problem

Jan 02, 2013 (SPX)

As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, now a new in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation could accelerate the onset of Alzhe...

Space travel can accelerate Alzheimer's: US study

Jan 01, 2013 (AFP)

Long journeys into deep space, including a mission to Mars, could expose astronauts to levels of cosmic radiation harmful to the brain and accelerate Alzheimer'...

Health Concerns Could Ground Citizen Astronauts

Dec 19, 2012 (VOA)

A group of former NASA executives plans to offer excursions to the moon to anyone who can afford the $1.4-million-dollar-per-couple ticket price. Golden Spike C...

Lights to combat astronaut insomnia

Dec 17, 2012 (UPI)

NASA says it will use lighting technology to help astronauts on the International Space Station sleep better during their "nights" in orbit. High-tech light-emi...

Six degrees of inclination

Dec 07, 2012 (ESA)

Stay in a tilted bed for weeks with your head at the lower end and your body starts to change as if it were ageing prematurely or living in space. Twelve volunt...

Why astronauts experience low blood pressure after returning to Earth from space

Oct 26, 2012 (SPX)

When astronauts return to Earth, their altitude isn't the only thing that drops-their blood pressure does too. This condition, known as orthostatic hypotension,...

Preventing infection on long flights

Oct 19, 2012 (SPX)

The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place - one cannot say "on earth" - for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wid...

ISS and space flight gravity influence immune system development

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

New research findings recently published in The FASEB Journal, show that immune system development is affected by gravity changes, as reported by researchers fr...

SMARTCAP - Funding opportunity for companies with promising medical products for use on Earth, in space

Sep 28, 2012 (SPX)

Do you know of a small company developing a medical product that could be adapted to solve a health or human performance challenge in space? Have you developed ...

Space bugs for blood testing and more

Aug 20, 2012 (ESA)

Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use...

NASA Selects Space Biology Research Proposals

Aug 14, 2012 (SPX)

NASA selected 15 experiments to be funded through its most recent research announcement for opportunities in space biology research. Ten of these experiments wi...

GE Researchers to Study Link Between Microgravity and Vision Impairment in Astronauts

Jul 24, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at GE Global Research will soon begin a three-year project to build and test a new ultrasound probe and measurement techniques that could eventually ...

Spaceflight may extend the lifespan of microscopic worm

Jul 10, 2012 (SPX)

The effect of spaceflight on a microscopic worm - Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) - could help it to live longer. The discovery was made by an international...

USRA Life Scientists' Proposals Selected to Support Astronaut Health on Missions

Jun 26, 2012 (SPX)

The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is very pleased to congratulate its scientific staff at the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), in Housto...

New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity

Jun 25, 2012 (SPX)

NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centr...

Seven scientists named as research team leaders for NSBRI

Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)

The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) has enlisted seven of the nation's top scientists to serve as team leaders in its efforts to protect as...