To Check Astronaut Health, ESA Is Developing a Blood Analysis Lab-On-A-Chip That Works in Space
Our healthcare future. Coming soon to your medicine cabinet, next to the thermometer.
Health • November 2011 • Views: 819
Anyone willing to travel to remote places for the sake of science has to accept some health problems, be it frostbite in Antarctica or bone loss in space. To make matters worse, these people also have to accept self-diagnosing and self-treating these health problems, not to mention others that may arise in the course of their missions. Now the European Space Agency wants to make these types of tests somewhat simpler for the astronauts who may need to perform them, by developing a space-worthy lab on a chip.