MEXICO: Scientists are planning to send thousands of microscopic worms to the International Space Station (ISS) in an experiment aimed at understanding what triggers the body to build and lose muscle.
In a recent international call for new life sciences experiments to be flown on the ISS, coordinated by Nasa, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Japanese and Canadian space agencies, three new experiments led by UK research teams were selected for further consideration.
One of the experiments is led by Dr Timothy Etheridge of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter, who studies muscle decline in space and potential ways of counteracting this. Etheridge’s team will use a nematode worm species called Cae norhabditis elegans -or `C elegans’ -which are highly useful for studying long term changes in human physiology because they suffer from muscle loss under many of the same conditions that people do.
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