{"id":668371,"date":"2020-09-29T06:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668371"},"modified":"2020-09-29T06:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:56:00","slug":"regenerative-flatworms-vs-rocket-launch-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=668371","title":{"rendered":"Regenerative flatworms vs. rocket launch stress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Planarian_flatworm_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Planarian flatworm\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Planarian flatworms are nature\u2019s 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\u2019 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\u2019s rapidly-spinning Large Diameter Centrifuge to generate hypergravity on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Regenerative_flatworms_vs._rocket_launch_stress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Regenerative flatworms vs. rocket launch stress<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planarian flatworms are nature\u2019s 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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668372,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668371","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=668371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/668372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=668371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=668371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=668371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}