Mayo Clinic to Grow Human Cells in Space to Test Treatment for Stroke

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Channel: Mayo Clinic · 2013 · Science & Technology

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Abba Zubair, M.D., Ph.D, medical and scientific director of the Cell Therapy Laboratory at Mayo Clinic in Florida, talks about the $300,000 his research team has received from The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space grant, to send human stem cells into space to see if they grow more rapidly than stem cells grown on Earth.

More on this via the Mayo Clinic News Network: http://mayocl.in/CellsInSpace

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