What is it like to work at NASA? Are you as inspired by the movie Hidden Figures as I was? Meet Holly Griffith, a real life engineer who works at NASA. Listen to her talk about what she does at NASA, life as a #WomanInSTEM, and the most nerve wracking thing she has ever done at work! © Sheba AJ , Holly Griffith This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Using space technology right here on Earth. When individual human cells were cultured in the microgravity environment of spaceflight in the 1990s, scientists noticed that they started to aggregate and organize as structures that resembled the native tissue from which the cells were derived. This was very different to cells grown under normal gravity conditions, that sediment to the bottom of the culture dish, precluding tissue development. This finding triggered great interest by tissue engineers, and resulted in the use of the microgravity research platform to engineering tissue-like or organotypic models (1). Based on this principle, NASA engineers have developed…