title: Space life sciences: biological research and space radiation. Proceedings of the F1.2, F1.3, F2.2 and F2.6 Symposia of COSPAR Scientific Commission F which were held during the Thirty-third COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Warsaw, Poland, July, 2000.
abstract: This issue of Advances in Space Research contains a large number of manuscripts in the discipline of Space Life Sciences including papers from the following sessions of the Warsaw COSPAR Assembly: Gravity-related research with animals--past, present, future; The nervous system: space flight environmental factors effects--present results and new perspectives; Investigating space radiation effects at particle accelerators--biology and physics experiments; Perspectives on radiation risks on long space missions: deterministic and stochastic effects.
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000639:trends*; D003359:Cosmic Radiation; D006112:Gravitation; D006801:Humans; D018472:Hypogravity; D012106:Research / Q000639:trends; D019445:Solar Activity; D013026:Space Flight; D014893:Weightlessness