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Iss: a worm to be sent in space for biological experiments

Paris, France - The Caenorhabditis elegans, only 0.0394 inches long, will reach the space station with Dutch astronaut Andreas Kuipers

It is called Caenorhabditis elegans the small worm, only 0.0394 inches (1mm) long, on which a series of experiments called "Ice First" will be carried out onboard the International Space Station (Iss) to study its muscular development, the effects of the stay in space on the duration of its life, and that of cosmic radiations on the genome stability. The worm will leave toward space with the Dutch...

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