BioServe Space Technologies is a Center within the Ann and HJ Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Since its inception in 1987, BioServe has designed, built, and flown microgravity life science research experiments and hardware on over 100 spaceflight missions. BioServe has a full suite of spaceflight-certified hardware available for use by its customers and partners. Past partners include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, Universities, NIH, NASA-funded and other government agency researchers. BioServe is a full-service, turn-key organization that enables its customers and partners to focus solely on research while BioServe manages all other activities required to successfully fly experiments in microgravity.
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Early holiday presents fresh from space!
Full Staff Physician and Medical Director of Research and Employee Health at Billings Clinic and Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Utah Health
Sometimes we get early Christmas presents, from Space. MeF1 is back in the lab and the team started analyzing the returning samples. Thanks again to all the people involved, and everyone supporting us. Happy Holidays, The MeF1 PI team!
We have handed over the Megakaryocytes Flying - One or short MeF1 investigation 🔬to NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration for launch 🚀 tonight onboard SpaceX’ CRS-31 resupply mission to the International Space Station National Laboratory. Over the past few days Hansjorg Schwertz, MD, PhD, MOH, CMRO, FACOEM 👨🔬 as well as Marina Tristão and Neal Tolley from the University of Utah School of Medicine have loaded all hardware 🧪 with guidance from our very own Stuart Tozer and Tobias Niederwieser. Now we can’t wait for a successful launch and seeing how platelets 🩸 form in space 🛰️! Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gX3rhjif
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MicroQuin's revolutionary work on the International Space Station National Laboratory has been featured in the ISS Upward magazine (Article link: https://lnkd.in/emDqFaJk) I could not be more grateful for the work done by BioServe Space Technologies. A massive thank you to Luis Zea, who's unwavering efforts made this possible!! MicroQuin will be publishing how our technologies can transform cancer treatment with minimal/no treatment toxicity in the very near future (article accepted - awaiting date for publication)
It has been a publication-heavy few months! ICYMI, researchers that we worked with to get their experiment conducted onboard the International Space Station National Laboratory using our hardware, expertise, and operations have published: Arun Sharma and his team from Cedars-Sinai have shown that induced pluripotent stem cells can be grown, maintained, and transfected in both 2D and 3D conditions in microgravity laying the groundwork for future biomanufacturing in space: https://lnkd.in/gKevsNbb Deok-Ho Kim and his team from The Johns Hopkins University and University of Washington have shown that in microgravity heart beats are half as strong and arrhythmia (times between beats) is up to 5 times longer: https://lnkd.in/eEsp7emB Ngan Huang and her team from Stanford University and Palo Alto Veterans Institute for Research have shown that impaired muscle myogenesis (formation) can be recreated in microgravity (after just one week) and be used to identify potential drug targets. https://lnkd.in/giD_qhz2
Today Butch Wilmore 👨🚀 completed the last run of our Gaucho Lung experiment onboard the International Space Station National Laboratory. PI Emilie Dressaire 👩🔬 and her team from UC Santa Barbara 🎓 are looking how fluid wicks in gel-coated tubes of different diameters without the confounding effects of gravity. Even though this is a physical 🧪 experiment in space 🚀, it has a biological 🧫 application on Earth 🌍: it could help to administrate drugs to newborns 👶 with underdeveloped lungs 🫁 that are experience respiratory distress syndrome. https://lnkd.in/gRq8rhMh
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are one of the most demanding cells to grow on Earth - yet they hold great potential for developing therapies to cure diseases here on Earth. Together with Arun Sharma and his team from Cedars-Sinai we have now grown them successfully in space onboard the Axiom Space's Ax-2 mission onboard the International Space Station National Laboratory as a first step. Next step: Scaling this up so we can produce stem cells in space!
Growing stem cells? In space? In off-the-shelf, affordable lab hardware? In 3D? We did all that…and more! 🚀🧫 Thrilled to publish our new paper, “Surface tension enables induced pluripotent stem cell culture in commercially available hardware during spaceflight” in Nature NPJ Microgravity! Read for free here: https://lnkd.in/gHeTScgi As with all our space biosciences studies, this was a hugely collaborative effort. Thanks to Clive Svendsen Maedeh Mozneb, Ph.D. Madelyn Arzt and the Cedars-Sinai team, Pinar Mesci, PhD, MSc Jana Stoudemire and Axiom Space, BioServe Space Technologies, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, SpaceX, Allen Institute, International Space Station National Laboratory, and Leidos.
Can you imagine measuring the pulse 📈 and strength 🏋♀️ of tiny beating heart muscles 💓 in space 🌌 for 26 days? We did it and the results are out: As the Smithsonian Institution nicely summarized, our partners Deok-Ho Kim, Devin Mair, and Jonathan Tsui, PhD from John Hopkins University have found that "the heart tissues had grown to beat half as strongly as the Earth-bound samples, and the period between beats stretched to five times longer. Heartbeat irregularity, known as arrhythmia, can cause heart failure, but the tissue’s contractions regained a normal cadence after returning to Earth. On a molecular level, sarcomeres—proteins that aid contraction—were shorter and disordered after space exposure, and cells’ mitochondria, responsible for energy production, had become deformed." Read the full publication here: https://lnkd.in/eEsp7emB
Lift-off!!🚀 another experiment for Mayo Clinic to explore stem cells in #space !! 🌌 (August 4 2024) ✨Today’s SpaceX Falcon 9 #launch of Cygnus NG-21 from Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida🐊🚀 What an absolute DREAM😍 Thank you to the incredible people and teams at BioServe Space Technologies, NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Northrop Grumman who make science like this possible! 🌏It is a very emotional journey; watching cells go from your laboratory (where you’ve spent months working with them) and now finally on their way to the International Space Station National Laboratory, and then waiting for their safe return home for scientific analysis👩🏻🔬🔬 (credits to John Winkopp for the amazing rocket launch photo) #Spaceforlife #spacestation #northropgrumman #spacex #rocketlaunch #spacemedicine #youngscientist
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Announcing our 4th mission to space - and the first to reprogram fibroblasts into iPSCs in microgravity!! Can't wait to see the results... Thanks to our partners at Axiom Space, BioServe Space Technologies and the Allen Institute for Brain Science. https://lnkd.in/gC2SzW2f
Some exciting space research news was just announced at the ISS Research and Development Conference! Three of the five research teams, selected to develop and fly their cancer research investigations, intend to work with BioServe Space Technologies, who will provide engineering and logistical support to prepare the projects for spaceflight and successful operations on station. https://lnkd.in/gD5Qmbf5