Ageing, Bone and Muscle Models
Why is microgravity useful for studying ageing, bone loss and muscle wasting, and is there a commercial market?
Chapter summary
astronauts lose bone and muscle rapidly in orbit, and cells and tissues show changes resembling accelerated ageing.
Key takeaways
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That makes orbit a fast laboratory for diseases such as osteoporosis and sarcopenia.
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Helogen plans a 30-day mission with University College London to build a bone model in orbit, claiming data that would take about three years on Earth; NASA and NIH have supported tissue-chip studies on the ISS.
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The market is research services for drug discovery, similar to organoids (Chapter 20), with no product approval needed.
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