The International Space Station (ISS) is an incredible feat of engineering, designed to support human life in profoundly ...

The team is specifically looking at platelets—cells that are directly involved in blood clotting—and megakaryocytes, bone marrow cells that produce platelets. After growing megakaryocytes and ...

Projects include the NASA JPL-managed quantum communication experiment known as SEAQUE. NASA is set to launch a series of new ...

Avatrombopag is a small molecule thrombopoietin (TPO) receptor agonist that works by rapidly increasing the number of platelets from the megakaryocytes in the bone marrow and thereby reducing the ...

per 100 ml. Figure 1 Bone-Marrow Smear from Case 1, Showing Moderately Increased Cellularity and Nine Megakaryocytes in This One Low-Power (X7 Objective) Field. With hydration the nonprotein ...

A NASA space biology research project, called MeF1 by Billings Clinic Bozeman physicianHansjorg Schwertz, MD, PhD, launched ...

The MOON Study (Megakaryocyte Flying-One)) investigation will conduct research on how the conditions in microgravity can impact the creation and function of platelets and bone-marrow megakaryocytes.