For 20 to 25 seconds at a time, University of Florida researchers experienced something nearly impossible to replicate on Earth: weightlessness.
On Sept. 7 and 11, six UF researchers and trainees boarded parabolic flights over Zurich, Switzerland, taking their experiments 30,000 feet into the air to study how human cells respond to microgravity. Their goal was to explore how the environment could advance the biomanufacturing of therapies for cancer and heart and muscle diseases and the potential to develop ultraviolet-protective compounds in space.
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