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- Title
Cell Biology Experiments Conducted in Space.
- Authors
Taylor, Gerald R.
- Abstract
The article focuses on various research concerning the impact of gravitational forces on living organism. Experimental evidence that organisms are affected by gravitational forces was first obtained in a study that demonstrated, with the aid of a water-driver centrifuge, that orientation in plants was determined by the gravitational vector in 1806. Information on several studies conducted on orbital spaceflights is provided. Inflight microbial growth was first monitored during the flights of Sputnik 5 space vehicle with the help of a device called Bioelements, which was designed to measure the rate of gas production in actively growing Clostridium butyricum cultures and to relay these data to Earth.
- Subjects
LIFE sciences; GRAVITATIONAL fields; ORGANISMS; GROWTH; AERONAUTICAL flights; SPACE exploration; CYTOLOGICAL research; CELL culture; DEVELOPMENTAL biology
- Publication
BioScience, 1977, Vol 27, Issue 2, p102
- ISSN
0006-3568
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1297606