{"id":242859,"date":"2016-09-19T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=486b88af87eaa7d818c991f43eab7622"},"modified":"2016-09-19T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:47:00","slug":"spin-your-thesis-2016-achilles-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242859","title":{"rendered":"Spin Your Thesis! 2016 &#8211; Achilles team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/09\/spin_your_thesis!_2016_-_achilles_team\/16140606-2-eng-GB\/Spin_Your_Thesis!_2016_-_Achilles_team_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAs part of ESA Education&#8217;s Hands-on programmes, 4 students&nbsp; from Universtity of Minho and University of Porto, devised a cell biology and hypergravity experiment to investigate tendon cell biology in view of developing a new method of repairing tendons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMusculoskeletal diseases are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, with tendon injuries being responsible for substantial morbidity, pain and disability, affecting athletes, active working people and the elderly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter injury, different therapeutic approaches can be used in the clinical setting. These include conservative treatments such as rest, mechanical conditioning, corticosteroids injection, etc.&nbsp; When conservative treatments fail or are not appropriate, surgical intervention is required.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Achilles experiment aims to combine a bioactive and bioinstructive membrane with hypergravity stimulation to gain a better understanding of tendon cell biology and the potential development of a patch for tendon regeneration applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ESA Education&#8217;s Hands-on programmes, 4 students&nbsp; from Universtity of Minho and University of Porto, devised a cell biology and hypergravity experiment to investigate tendon cell biology in view of developing a new method of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242915,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242859\/revisions\/242915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}