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Mimicking a Space Mission to Mars Using Hindlimb Unloading and Partial Weight Bearing in Rats
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2019
By using an innovative ground-based analogue model, we are able to simulate a space mission including a trip to (0 g) and a stay on Mars (0.38 g) in rats. This model allows for a longitudinal assessment of the physiological changes occurring during the two hypo-gravitational stages of the mission.
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MISSION LentiPlex Pooled shRNA Library Screening in Mammalian Cells
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2011
Here we use a human LentiPlex pooled library and traditional sequencing methods to identify gene targets promoting cell survival. We demonstrate how to set up and deconvolute a LentiPlex screen and validate the results.
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MISSION esiRNA for RNAi Screening in Mammalian Cells
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2010
Here we use a human esiRNA library in a high-throughput screen for genes involved in cell division. We demonstrate how to set up and conduct an esiRNA screens, as well as how to analyze and validate the results.
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Genome-wide Screen for miRNA Targets Using the MISSION Target ID Library
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2012
The Target ID Library is a plasmid-based, genome-wide collection of cloned cDNA used to identify miRNA targets. Here we demonstrate its use and application.
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Concept Development and Use of an Automated Food Intake and Eating Behavior Assessment Method
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2021
This protocol shows and explains a new technology-based dietary assessment method. The method consists of a dining tray with multiple built-in weighing scales and a video camera. The device is unique in the sense that it incorporates automated measures of food and drink intake and eating behavior over the course of a meal.
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Launch windows constrain when a spacecraft can depart and how its trajectory is planned for interplanetary travel. Engineering teams coordinate propulsion and navigation systems with that timing, then account for the later arrival sequence. This planning links departure conditions to atmospheric entry, descent, and landing requirements, helping the mission reach its intended orbital or surface operation.
These phases form a continuous transition from interplanetary flight to operation at Mars. A mission must manage them as connected events before it can deploy surface or orbital systems. Engineering attention to the sequence supports reliability because failure in one phase can prevent instruments, spacecraft, or crews from beginning their planned investigations.
Once a mission reaches Mars, autonomy helps systems operate while communications maintain links with Earth and power generation sustains spacecraft or instruments. These capabilities are especially important when the mission must conduct operations through deployed orbital or surface systems. Together, they enable continued investigation and provide engineering evidence about how future missions could operate farther from Earth.
They pursue planetary questions about Martian geology, climate, water history, and potential habitability while testing technologies needed for exploration. Resource utilization, autonomous operations, communications, and power generation are therefore not only support functions; they are also engineering objectives. Results from both science and technology demonstrations can guide spacecraft design and improve the reliability of later missions.
Planning begins with a trajectory timed to a launch window, followed by interplanetary travel supported by propulsion and navigation. On arrival, the spacecraft passes through atmospheric entry, descent, and landing when surface access is required, then deploys orbital or surface systems. Teams also plan communications, power, autonomy, and resource utilization to support the mission’s intended operations.
Mission objectives determine where spacecraft and instruments must operate. Orbital systems support investigation from above, whereas surface systems enable work after landing; crews may also be included as mission elements. Selecting among these configurations connects scientific goals with trajectory, landing, deployment, communications, and power requirements, creating a mission architecture suited to the intended investigation.
They produce two linked forms of value: findings about Mars and evidence about the performance of exploration technologies. Results can inform understanding of geology, climate, water history, and potential habitability, while also guiding spacecraft design and long-term plans for sustained human activity beyond Earth. This combination makes mission data relevant to both planetary science and engineering development.