Publication Date:
2019-07-12
Description:
Astronauts lose significant bone mass during lengthy space flights. NASA wishes to monitor this bone loss in order to develop nutritional and exercise countermeasures. Operational Technologies Corporation (OpTech) has developed a handheld device that quantifies bone loss in a spacecraft environment. The innovation works by adding fluorescent dyes and quenchers to aptamers to enable pushbutton, one-step bind-and-detect FRET assays that can be freeze-dried, rehydrated with body fluids, and used to quantify bone loss.
Keywords:
Aerospace Medicine
Type:
An Overview of SBIR Phase 2 Physical Sciences and Biomedical Technologies in Space; 4; NASA/TM-2015-218857
Format:
application/pdf