Kidney-on-a-Chip Goes to the ISS
August 29, 2017 | Terry Sharrer

International Space Station
According to a pharmacy professor at the University of Washington, weightlessness accelerates kidney diseases. “In the microgravity environment on the International Space Station, kidney problems are more common. They develop in weeks or months, instead of decades.” How this happens is the question Seattle based organ-on-a-chip maker, Nortis, hopes to explore in sending 24 of its chips into space. In the first phase, the chips will be used to study environmental effects on healthy kidney cells; then, a phase two will look at how diseased kidney cells behave. MORE
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