UC San Diego engineers are growing plants under simulated space conditions to explore their potential to produce pharmaceuticals in space. Credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of ...

In La Jolla, engineers at UC San Diego say they have cracked a simpler way to grow and harvest medicine-grade particles from plants under space-like conditions, a potential step toward on-demand ...

The International Space Station suspended over planet Earth and against the backdrop of the inky universe. The International Space Station suspended over planet Earth, as photographed by the ...

Abstract: There is a need to study the behavior of living organisms and other objects of interest under microgravity conditions. To investigate the effects of microgravity, one would typically need to ...

Students from Concordia’s Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science made their mark at the recent Quebec Engineering Competition in Quebec City. One individual and three teams had qualified ...

Researchers studied fungi behavior under hypergravity, revealing both the risks and potential benefits of fungi in space missions. Future studies will investigate other organisms in similar conditions ...

2D and 3D Clinostats are used to simulate microgravity on Earth. These machines continuously alter the sample’s orientation, so the acceleration vector changes faster than the biological endpoint ...

Imagine if after a serious accident, your damaged facial bones could be replaced with tissue made by your own cells. Or if you could pop a pill that could reprogram your immune system to fight a ...

The mechanotransduction pathways that mediate cellular responses to contact forces are better understood than those that mediate response to distance forces, especially the force of gravity. Removing ...