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Tissue Chips Deployed on SpaceX May Accelerate Research by Decades Using Disease Modeling in Microgravity

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Published on : December 1, 2020December 1, 2020 Published by : Amanda Donohue

The SpaceX that launched on Nov. 15 took off with scientific investigations for astronauts to work on while in orbit—one of them being tissue chips as a medium to understand the impact of microgravity on human health and disease.