Development and verification of hardware for life science experiments in the Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo" on the International Space Station.
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has developed a cell biology experiment facility (CBEF) and a clean bench (CB) as a common hardware in which life science experiments in the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM known as "Kibo") of the International Space Station (ISS) can be performed. The CBEF, a CO2 incubator with a turntable that provides variable gravity levels, is the basic hardware required to carry out the biological experiments using microorganisms, cells, tissues, small animals, plants, etc. The CB provides a closed aseptic operation area for life science and biotechnology experiments in Kibo. A phase contrast and fluorescence microscope is installed inside CB. The biological experiment units (BEU) are designed to run individual experiments using the CBEF and the CB. A plant experiment unit (PEU) and two cell experiment units (CEU type1 and type2) for the BEU have been developed.
Ishioka
Noriaki
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Department of Space Biology and Microgravity Science, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. ishioka.noriaki@jaxa.jp
Suzuki
Hiromi
H
Asashima
Makoto
M
Kamisaka
Seiichiro
S
Mogami
Yoshihiro
Y
Ochiai
Toshimasa
T
Aizawa-Yano
Sachiko
S
Higashibata
Akira
A
Ando
Noboru
N
Nagase
Mutsumu
M
Ogawa
Shigeyuki
S
Shimazu
Toru
T
Fukui
Keiji
K
Fujimoto
Nobuyoshi
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D000818:Animals; D017360:Arabidopsis / Q000254:growth & development; D018929:Cell Culture Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation; D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004780:Environment, Controlled; D004867:Equipment Design; D007564:Japan; D007668:Kidney / Q000166:cytology; D007753:Laboratories; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D013026:Space Flight / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018531:Spacecraft / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013242:Sterilization; D014893:Weightlessness; D014981:Xenopus