ISS News

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/29/2023
    by Bill Keeter on March 29, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Payloads: BioFabrication Facility (BFF): Vials were inserted into the BFF that contained Cell Cassette 20510 in order to re-attempt a print session from the previous day’s aborted session. Four cleaning (Bio-ink) syringes were swapped out, media was applied into the BFF and tissue printing was […]

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/28/2023
    by Bill Keeter on March 28, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Payloads: Ampli Space Pharmacy: Ampli Space Pharmacy hardware was stowed. The Ampli Space Pharmacy investigation studies the properties of chemical reactions of fluids flowing through membranes in microgravity. Researchers can use resulting information to refine an existing organic synthesis and […]

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/27/2023
    by Bill Keeter on March 27, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Payloads: Engineered Heart Tissues-2: A media change, sampling and assigned treatment dosing was performed on each Tissue Chamber on Saturday. Engineered Heart Tissues-2 continues work with 3D cultured cardiac muscle tissue to assess human cardiac function in microgravity. Previous work with 3D […]

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/24/2023
    by Bill Keeter on March 24, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Payloads: BioFabrication Facility (BFF): Tissue Cassettes were installed into BFF. Using 3D biological printers to produce usable human organs has long been a dream of scientists and doctors around the globe. However, printing the tiny, complex structures found inside human organs, such as […]

  • ISS Daily Summary Report – 3/23/2023
    by Bill Keeter on March 23, 2023 at 4:00 pm

    Payloads: Cardinal Heart 2.0: A preservative was injected into each Cardinal Heart 2.0 tissue chamber and microscopy imagery was conducted for specific chambers. A previous investigation showed that four weeks of microgravity exposure caused significant changes in heart cell function and gene […]