Compelling Results Award - 2023 ISS Research Awards
Awarded Aug 31, 2023
Professor Satoru Takahashi and the MHU Mission Team were awarded the 2023 ISS Research Awards, “Compelling Results Award” for research on the “Small Animal Breeding Mission under Artificial Moon Gravity”, aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
Each year, the ISS Research Award is announced during the ISS Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC: ISS National Laboratory, NASA, and American Astronautical Society) in the USA. The award is recognition for research and innovation that achieves outstanding research results aboard the International Space Station.
The MHU mission has conducted long term rearing of small animals on the ISS under artificial lunar surface gravity and revealed for the for the first time that the homeostasis of mouse skeletal muscle, which is regulated by gravity loading, is qualitatively and quantitatively controlled by different gravity thresholds.
Furthermore, the team identified a previously unknown transcription factor that directly induces fast-twitch muscle fiber.
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