Article: Disease Model Uses 3-D Cancer Cells Grown In Space.(ovarian cancer)

2001 AUG 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --

The space shuttle Discovery is taking ovarian cancer into space for the first time.

Part of a joint project between University of South Florida (USF) College of Medicine and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the ovarian cancer cells are headed to the International Space Station to grow for two weeks in a near-gravity-free environment. The goal is to develop three-dimensional cancer cell clusters that function more like cancer in humans than the two-dimensional cell cultures traditionally grown in Petri dishes.

For the last nine years, USF cell biologist Jeanne Becker, PhD, has ...

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