Mayo Clinic and NASA – Exploring Two Frontiers
Space—with near-zero gravity, no atmosphere, and extremes of heat and cold—is an unusual and often hostile environment. But it’s also an opportunity—for medical researchers who see maladies and...
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Space travel is known to cause wear and tear on astronauts’ bodies, but it’s still not clear how radiation exposure in space affects the function of cells. In particular, what happens to the body’s...
View ArticleSafer Space Travel is the Goal of Mayo Researchers
It's a long way to Mars. And nearly all the journey is outside of Earth's semiprotective atmosphere. Even the International Space Station, 248 miles up, is in a relatively safe orbit — meaning...
View ArticleMayo Innovation, Research at Forefront of World War II Victory
If you watched "Top Gun: Maverick" this summer, you saw a fictional portrayal of how fighter pilots can perform incredible aerial maneuvers at high G-forces, or the force of gravity. Here's the story...
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