Chips carrying Artemis II astronauts’ cells map spaceflight’s effect on human biology
TL;DR
During Artemis II’s lunar flyby, four tiny chips seeded with the astronauts’ bone marrow cells circled the Moon to study how deep-space conditions—like radiation and microgravity—affect human biology, part of NASA’s Avatar program using organ-on-a-chip devices to inform future space medicine.
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