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Human muscle cells come back from space, look aged
Astronauts' muscles atrophy in space, but we can identify the genes involved.
A Stanford University research team sent some of these systems to the International Space Station to study the muscle atrophy commonly observed in astronauts. “We learned that microgravity mimics some of the qualities of accelerated aging,” said Ngan F. Huang, an associate professor at Stanford who led the study. We received funding to do a tissue engineering experiment on the ISS, which really helped us embark on this journey, and became curious how microgravity affects human health,” said Huang.
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