Showing posts with label ISS Now At Over 26 Years In Orbit / Life Sciences / DNA Sequencing In Zero-Gravity June 18 2024. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISS Now At Over 26 Years In Orbit / Life Sciences / DNA Sequencing In Zero-Gravity June 18 2024. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Some Life Science Research Underway, In Orbit -- On ISS -- By Suni and Butch... Latest NASA Updates.

While awaiting a new June 24 greenlight for a series of spacewalks, the international team is staying busy, above.

Specifically, with some DNA sequencing / life sciences work. Here's that bit:

. . .Starliner crewmates Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams focused their Tuesday research activities on a treatment for respiratory conditions and DNA sequencing to identify microbes living on spacecraft.

Wilmore worked in the Harmony module performing sample operations and videotaping liquid flows to improve the transport of liquid drugs in human airways. Afterward, Williams also worked in Harmony and sequenced microbial and fungal DNA samples collected from station water systems. Results may advance crew health, increase spacecraft safety, and upgrade health care systems on Earth. . . .


Now you know. . . onward -- grinning. It is toasty out there today!

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