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Article: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM LAB FREEZERS TO DEBUT IN SPACE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 13, 2008
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The University of Alabama at Birmingham issued the following news release:
When the space shuttle Endeavour lifts off this month, its flight crew will be taking new research equipment designed and built by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).
Aboard the flight is a pair of cryogenic freezers from the UAB Center for Biophysical Sciences and Engineering (CBSE) that will boost the biological research capacity of the shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS).
Capable of minus 160 degrees Celsius, the small, portable freezers can hold laboratory trays, test tubes and various research containers used in biology, chemistry, physics, medicine and other space-based experiments, ...