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Sustaining human life in space

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Check out our contribution to CSIC road map for the future:
 

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Libro Blanco CSIC 12: Our future? Space colonization and exploration 110-143 (2020)

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Authors: Benavides-Piccione, Ruth ; Medina, F. Javier  ; Roldán, Eduardo R. S.  ; Von Kobbe, Cayetano; Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Luis M. ; Revilla Temiño, Pedro ; Martínez Fernández, Beatriz  ; Sentandreu, Miguel Angel ; González-Pastor, José Eduardo ; González Grau, Juan Miguel  ; Herranz, Raúl  

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On 20th July 1969, the Fresnedillas Control Station, near Madrid, received the first words of a human from the surface of the Moon. “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind”, was the historical sentence recorded from Neil A. Armstrong, commander of the “Apollo XI” mission. Nowadays, fifty years after Armstrong’s epic achievement, space exploration by humans is commonly recognized as a highly exciting and attractive challenge and a powerful booster for scientific and technological progress in order to improve the human life on Earth (NASA et al. 2018). This is true despite some criticisms (minority, but significant) that question the high costs that it entails (Rinaldi 2016). The establishment of permanent settlements in the Moon and Mars is becoming a realistic venture day by day. After a decade of successful rover explorations to the surface of Mars (Voosen 2018), both ESA and NASA, and more recently the agencies from growing economies in Asian countries, are working to promote a manned mission, first to the Moon, and then to Mars. The European Space Agency (ESA), of which Spain is an active member, adheres to these objectives and is strongly committed in supporting and participating in these programs. The main aim of space life science is to understand how the space environment, and specifically altered gravity and radiation, affects the morphology, physiology and behaviour of living organisms, and to design countermeasures to enable terrestrial life, and particularly human life, to develop outside Earth. That is, how they perceive and respond to gravity and radiation and adapt to the space environment. There is a variety of disciplines, such as genetics, molecular, anatomical or physiological fields, which use a range of technologies to address these issues. In order to understand adaptations at the functional level it is necessary to comprehend adaptations at cellular and tissue levels. Also, basic research analysing biomolecules, cells and model organisms are necessary to progress towards exploration subsystems or bioregenerative life support Systems. Figure 1 shows a scheme of the synergism between space biology and human research from NASA life sciences translational research (taken from Alwood et al., 2017). Thus, life science space research moves from biological systems to human health in order to support successful human exploration; through the horizontal integration of research between basic and applied researchers, along with vertically-integrated teams.

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Síntesis de fosfatos de calcio aplicada a la producción de andamios para la regeneración ósea maxilofacial

Estudiante: Carlos Javier Beigveder Núñez

Universidad: Internacional de Valencia, FACULTAD/ESCUELA: Máster Universitario en Ingeniería Biomédica

Supervisores: Dr. Luis M Rodríguez-Lorenzo

Septiembre de 2023 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/341755

 

Biotintas híbridas para bioimpresión de modelos en ingeniería de tejidos

Estudiante: Javier Marín Sánchez

Universidad: Carlos III de Madrid FACULTAD/ESCUELA: Master en gestión y desarrollo de tecnologías biomédicas

Supervisores: Dr. Luis M Rodríguez-Lorenzo

Septiembre de 2023 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/341762

 

BIOTINTAS HÍBRIDAS PARA BIOIMPRESIÓN DE MODELOS PARA DIFERENTES TEJIDOS

Estudiante: Nerea Arina Paños

Universidad: Carlos III de Madrid FACULTAD/ESCUELA: Master en gestión y desarrollo de tecnologías biomédicas

Supervisores: Dr. Luis M Rodríguez-Lorenzo

Septiembre de 2023 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/341764

 

INFLUENCIA DE LAS PROPIEDADES VISCOELÁSTICAS DEL HIDROGEL EN LA MIGRACIÓN COLECTIVA DE LAS CÉLULAS PANC-1

Estudiante:  Elena Peinador Pedregal

UNIVERSIDAD: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 

 FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS BIOLÓGICAS MENCIÓN EN BIOTECNOLOGÍA. http://hdl.handle.net/10261/341736

Supervisor: Dr. Luis M Rodríguez-Lorenzo

Año: Junio de 2023

 

Design and manufacturing of maxillofacial implants trough 3D bioprinting

Estudiante: Sara Román Ceballos

UNIVERSIDAD: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, FACULTAD/ESCUELA: Ingeniería http://hdl.handle.net/10261/341744

Supervisor: Dr. Luis M Rodríguez-Lorenzo

Año: Julio de 2023

 

Influence of the Elastic Modulus of Alginate-based Bioinks in the Migration of Tumoral Pancreatic Cells

Bachelor Thesis  from our student: Gema Quiñonero López

for her University Degree in Biomedical Engineering

UC3M

Supervisor: Dr. Luis M Rodríguez-Lorenzo 
Julio de 2022

Desarrollo de  biotintas basadas en nanocelulosa cristalina funcionalizada

memoria que presenta nuestra estudiante:

Clara María García Sáez

para su grado de MÁSTER EN BIOMATERIALES

UCM

Supervisores: Dr. Luis M Rodríguez-Lorenzo y Dr. Francisco Parra Ruiz
Junio de 2022