http://www.sciscoop.com/2003-6-25-5056-12302.html Scooping up science news and dropping it on your desk Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:14:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.sciscoop.com/2003-6-25-5056-12302.html/comment-page-1#comment-771 apsmith Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:22:02 +0000 http://localhost/~arielschwartz/wordpress/sciscoop/?p=1482#comment-771 The NASA Ames group has been <a href="http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/roadmap/">involved</a> in defining this field for a few years now - we had a wonderful talk at <a href="http://isdc.nss.org/2003/">ISDC</a> by Lynn Harper from Ames, who is one of the originators of the field. She sees great potential for biological research in space - low gravity seems to do strange things to a lot of biological mechanisms, radically changing gene expression even without any genetic changes - the next step of course is to look at low-gravity genetic adaptations - she thought there was wonderful potential along these lines for a research institute on the Moon. The NASA Ames group has been involved in defining this field for a few years now – we had a wonderful talk at ISDC by Lynn Harper from Ames, who is one of the originators of the field. She sees great potential for biological research in space – low gravity seems to do strange things to a lot of biological mechanisms, radically changing gene expression even without any genetic changes – the next step of course is to look at low-gravity genetic adaptations – she thought there was wonderful potential along these lines for a research institute on the Moon.

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