The Scientist : Space adds new dimension to cancer research [10/8/2001]

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by Simon Frantz

NEWS ANALYSIS

Space adds new dimension to cancer research

Email: Simon Frantz - simonfrantz@hotmail.com
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20010810-03

Published

10 August 2001

When the space shuttle Discovery blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) later today (launch scheduled Friday August 10, 2001 - 5.39 pm EDT), it will be taking with it a frozen clump of ovarian cancer cells. On the station, mission specialists will thaw them and grow them into a three-dimensional cluster that resembles the type of tumour one sees in the body, rather than into the abnormal shape on the flat bottom of a laboratory culture dish.

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