Planarian flatworms are nature’s versions of Doctor Who, able to regenerate their entire bodies from smaller pieces. This prodigious ability has seen them travel to space, to investigate if the planarians’ regenerative ability is maintained in weightless conditions. Now for the first time an experiment has looked into how the very demanding experience of a rocket launch might impact their possible regrowth, using ESA’s rapidly-spinning Large Diameter Centrifuge to generate hypergravity on the ground.
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Source: ESA Space Engineering & Technology