Bioreactors
Understanding microgravity
- Microgravity occurs when an object is in "freefall"
- It falls faster and faster accelerating with the same acceleration due to gravity (1g)
- If an object is fired at the appropriate speed it achieves a state of continuous freefall or orbit
- The same principle applies to space craft
- Objects inside appear motionless but are really at the same orbital speed as the spacecraft - 17500 miles per hour
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Lectures:
- Year 1:
- Cell Biology
- Year 2:
- Tissue Interactions and Biocompatibility
- Year 3/4:
- Tissue Engineering