NASA and stem cells often hog the headlines, but not usually together. That might be about to change. Researchers from Kingston University, London, have teamed up with NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to grow tissue in zero-gravity labs on Earth from adult stem cells, and to develop medicine that astronauts could one day take with them on a mission to Mars.
The project will combine stem cells from umbilical blood and bone marrow with tissues from adults to grow the new tissue. The technology will be tested during unmanned space missions in 2008. “In zero gravity you have…
