{"id":749951,"date":"2023-03-07T15:11:13","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=749951"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T19:11:13","slug":"heart-tissue-heads-to-space-to-aid-research-on-aging-and-impact-of-long-spaceflights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=749951","title":{"rendered":"Heart tissue heads to space to aid research on aging and impact of long spaceflights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart &#8220;tissue-on-a-chip&#8221; specimens into space as early as March. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes in heart muscle cells&#8217; mitochondria (their power supply) and ability to contract in low-gravity conditions.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-03-heart-tissue-space-aid-aging.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heart tissue heads to space to aid research on aging and impact of long spaceflights<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart &#8220;tissue-on-a-chip&#8221; specimens into space as early as March. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749951","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=749951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749951\/revisions"}],"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=749951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}