{"id":30835,"date":"2023-06-27T16:54:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.engr.uconn.edu\/?p=30835"},"modified":"2024-04-04T02:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T06:46:32","slug":"nasa-astronauts-perform-life-saving-nanomaterial-experiments-for-uconns-biomedical-engineering-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/06\/nasa-astronauts-perform-life-saving-nanomaterial-experiments-for-uconns-biomedical-engineering-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Astronauts Perform Life-Saving Nanomaterial Experiments for UConn&#8217;s Biomedical Engineering Researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-30834 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/news.engr.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/NASA-Axiom-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"NASA Participants\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/683;\" \/>A new experiment led by biomedical engineering researchers at the University of Connecticut is taking place 254-miles off Earth\u2014 inside NASA\u2019s International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting ISS astronauts to Storrs via videoconferencing is no easy feat, but a team of School of Engineering researchers made it happen this spring to facilitate experiments featuring life-saving nanomaterials.<\/p>\n<p>Biomedical Engineering Associate Professor Yupeng Chen, who is the principal investigator of these experiments, and his graduate students partnered with UConn-affiliated Eascra Biotech and Axiom Space.<\/p>\n<p>Working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the teams are organizing a proof-of-concept study aboard the ISS involving the fabrication of Janus base nanomaterials (JBN), a family of novel biomaterials that mimic DNA.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button radius medium\" href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/06\/nasa-astronauts-perform-life-saving-nanomaterial-experiments-for-uconns-biomedical-engineering-researchers\/\">Read More @ UConn Today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axiom Space and Eascra Biotech plan to create a manufacturing facility for therapeutic biomaterials in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":212071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[43],"class_list":["post-30835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 16:53:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207574,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions\/207574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/212071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}