{"id":94587,"date":"2025-08-24T23:55:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94587\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T23:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T23:55:08","slug":"stem-cells-provided-by-allen-institute-sent-to-space-for-research-on-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/94587\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem cells provided by Allen Institute sent to space for research on International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a878c31c06ace5a2bcd1571e3836c2f0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In SpaceX\u2019s latest launch of their Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday morning, the crew\u2019s payload included stem cells for research on how to grow tissues in space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cells were provided by the Seattle-based Allen Institute to researchers at Cedars-Sinai to send the first-ever heart and brain organoids to be grown in space, according to a release from the Allen Institute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Scientists say the organoids will be used aboard the International Space Station to research treatment for diseases, including ALS and Parkinson\u2019s<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Falcon 9 launched from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 2:45 a.m. ET Sunday and it is SpaceX\u2019s 33rd commercial resupply mission, NASA says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more information visit <a href=\"https:\/\/alleninstitute.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:alleninstitute.org.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">alleninstitute.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In SpaceX\u2019s latest launch of their Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday morning, the crew\u2019s payload included stem cells&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[55330,49,48,55331,22543,9693,994,66,7822],"class_list":{"0":"post-94587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-allen-institute","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-cedars-sinai","12":"tag-falcon-9-rocket","13":"tag-international-space-station","14":"tag-research","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-stem-cells"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}