3-2-1 Blast Off! Miniature organs in space

OCT 20, 20269 MIN

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Miniature organs have landed at the International Space Station. Scientists sent them there to better understand the disease of aging. David Sachs, assistant professor of surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York on how the lack of gravity in space accelerates aging and how scientists can use it to better understand heart disease and Alzheimer’s.