Science
The First Rule for Sending a Science Experiment to Space – Slate
It’s less about microgravity and cosmic rays, more about how many mice an astronaut can take care of at once.
It took more than a year for Deok-Ho Kim, a biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University, to prepare for one monthlong experiment. Kim studies cardiac health, working toward developing therapeutics to counter heart diseases. For his experiment, his team developed a leakproof tissue chamber the size of a smartphone and a remote magnet monitor to measure the beating of their experiments heart tissues. And then right before the start of his experiment, Kim sent his experiment away to be conducted…
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