International Space Station

Astronaut in space
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:54 pm January 23, 2025
Research conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) may result in early cancer detection, advance treatments for neurodegenerative conditions and improve respiratory therapies. Space Station (ISS) on SpaceX’s 31st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) was on a mission for NASA.  SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft contained close to 50 biotechnology, physical science and student research payloads...
Jasmin Moghbeli
By  Anthony Vecchione 02:54 pm December 23, 2024
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding a solicitation searching for projects that use the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory to advance tissue engineering and mechanobiology research.  Through the solicitation, NSF will provide up to $1.6 million in funding for multiple projects. Microgravity has an impact on organisms from bacteria to humans, resulting in...
Exterior of SpaceX building
By  Anthony Vecchione 12:05 pm October 1, 2024
When NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 28, one of the ISS National Lab-sponsored investigations included a student-led project designed to investigate the consequences of radiation and the space environment on gene-editing mechanisms. In a statement, the ISS National Laboratory said that data from the project, led by principal investigator Isabel...
Astronaut looking at scientific paraphernalia
By  Jessica Hagen 01:31 pm October 5, 2022
Today, four astronauts headed to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of SpaceX's 5th Commercial Crew mission will begin a six-month venture into space-based research. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the Crew-5 astronauts brought multiple research investigations sponsored by the ISS National Lab.  Throughout the mission, the astronauts will support hundreds of research and...
By  Laura Lovett 03:03 pm November 5, 2019
Scientists and innovators are no stranger to technology failures — often in the pursuit of bettering systems or advancing science. However, a mission to Mars, where the stakes are high and distance from Earth is extreme, is not the right place for experimenting with health tech, according to speakers at the Space Health Innovation Conference in San Francisco on Saturday.  “You are never going to...
By  Jonah Comstock 07:16 pm March 8, 2018
There’s no doctor onboard the International Space Station. Because of the costs associated with shipping anything up to space, there’s a carefully chosen selection of medical supplies and devices. For everything else, the six international astronauts that live and work on the station rely on NASA’s own brand of telemedicine. “Telemedicine really is our only resource,” Dr. Shannan Moynihan, deputy...
By  Heather Mack 02:40 pm December 14, 2016
Washington, D.C research foundation RTI International has partnered with Validic to leverage consumer wearable and health sensor data for research. Validic – which has a platform that enables personal health information from consumer devices to be securely captured, standardized and delivered – will validate and deliver the patient-recorded data, and RTI will carry out the research from there....
By  Heather Mack 04:14 pm November 1, 2016
Fitbit has partnered with Virgin Pulse, a mobile-first employee wellness and engagement company, to offer Fitbit trackers at a lower cost and develop personalized wellbeing programs around Fitbit’s Group Health offerings. The collaboration will reach some 2,200 Virgin Pulse employer customers worldwide, and will work to address the challenge of implementing and managing corporate wellness...