title: Development and verification of hardware for life science experiments in the Japanese Experiment Module "Kibo" on the International Space Station.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Space Biology and Microgravity Science, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. ishioka.noriaki@jaxa.jp
authors.forename: Noriaki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ishioka
authors.forename: Hiromi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asashima
authors.forename: Seiichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kamisaka
authors.forename: Yoshihiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mogami
authors.forename: Toshimasa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ochiai
authors.forename: Sachiko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aizawa-Yano
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Higashibata
authors.forename: Noboru
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ando
authors.forename: Mutsumu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagase
authors.forename: Shigeyuki
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ogawa
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimazu
authors.forename: Keiji
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fukui
authors.forename: Nobuyoshi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fujimoto
mesh_terms: 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