Figure 15. Rotating tissue culture vessels, which simulate some
aspects of microgravity, allow human cells to grow and
assemble into 3-dimensional tissues.
This new class of
culture vessel has enabled the growth of normal and
cancerous human tissues outside the body and is a tool
for gaining important information with applications in
medicine and the biology. The figure shows a human
cell grown in a rotating tissue culture vessel.
(Used with permission of Dr. Roger Crouch, NASA)