Life Science in Space: Experiments on Board the SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite

Enkui DUAN: Professor of Reproductive Biology at the Institute of Zoology, CAS, Deputy Chief Designer of application systems, SJ-10 satellite engineering. His current interests focus on embryo implantation, stem cell biology, tsRNA in sperm, and stem cell differentiation /embryo development under microgravity. Mian LONG: Professor of Biomechanics at the Institute of Mechanics of CAS, and Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering. His current interests focus on biomechanics of protein-protein interactions, cellular and subcellular mechanobiology, and cellular and molecular bioengineering under microgravity.

Introduction to Life Sciences experiments operated in SJ-10 Recoverable Satellite.- Space Radiation Systems Biology Research in SJ-10 satellite.- Effect of space environment on genome stability.- Effects of space environment on silkworm development and gene mutation.- Effects of Gravity on Growth of Plant Cells.- Flowering in space.- Cell growth and mass transportation under microgravity.- The maintaining and directed differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells under microgravity.- Three-dimensional cell culture and tissue restoration of neural stem cells under microgravity.- Advances of mammalian reproduction and embryonic development under microgravity.- Osteogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells and its molecular mechanism in microgravity.- Facilities and techniques of space life science.- Medulloculture payload, radiation gene payload and comprehensive control payload.