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Nature Medicine 13, 1123 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nm1007-1123

Amidst doubts, space research program takes flight

Emma Marris1

  1. Columbia, Missouri

Given that all life on earth evolved in the presence of gravity, not all scientists agree that research in space can reveal anything informative. Nonetheless, a few researchers are eager to blast off their cell cultures, hamsters and pathogens into orbit.