Looking at Muscle Loss With a Lab-on-a-Chip

This past weekend, crew members onboard the International Space Station (ISS) worked on an investigation by Micro-gRx to validate the company’s “lab-on-a-chip” cell culturing system to study human primary skeletal muscle precursor cells and muscle wasting in microgravity. The experiment recently launched to the space station on the Northrop Grumman commercial resupply services (CRS)-10 mission.

NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor works on the Micro-gRx investigation onboard the ISS.

Media Credit: Image courtesy of NASA

Learn more about this ISS National Lab investigation in the video below and in the ISS360 article “Modeling Muscle Atrophy in Microgravity: Testing Lab-on-a-Chip Technology.”