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[mfoundation] NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge to help in study of deep space environmental effects


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Posted 17 June 2016 - 06:33 PM


NASA’s Vascular Tissue Challenge to help in study of deep space environmental effects

Those working in the field of bioengineering should be ready for a challenge worth $500,000. NASA, along with the nonprofit Methuselah Foundation’s New Organ Alliance, has introduced the new prize competition, named as the Vascular Tissue Challenge. The first three teams that will succeed in creating thick, metabolically-functional human vascularized organ tissue in a controlled laboratory environment will be offered the prize money.

The participants in the competition have to produce vascularized tissue that is more than .39 inches in thickness and one that would offer over 85% of survival to required cells throughout a 30-day trial period. The teams in order to succeed should conduct three trials with at least a 75% of success rate. Moreover, teams must submit a proposal on ways to advance some aspect of their research further through a microgravity experiment, which would be conducted in the US National Laboratory on the International Space Station.

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