BioServe Space Technologies is a research institute within the

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. Since its foundation in 1987 it focuses on developing

microgravity Weightlessness is the complete or near-complete absence of the sensation of weight, i.e., zero apparent weight. It is also termed zero g-force, or zero-g (named after the g-force) or, incorrectly, zero gravity. Weight is a measurement of the fo ...

life science research and hardware. Its current Chief Scientist is Prof. Louis Stodieck and the Center Director is Ms. Stefanie Countryman. BioServe has designed, built and flown over 50 different payloads on over 85 space flight missions including the

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, MIR, Soyuz, and Progress and recently the

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capsule and Orbital's Cygnus spacecraft. In 2011, BioServe was selected to be the official payload developer for the YouTube Space Lab - a contest where students were able to propose micro gravitational research and BioServe would develop the winner's experiment hardware and perform all of the mission integration and operations work. BioServe Space Technologies was also the designer of the Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA) which is a temperature controlled incubator for experiments on cells, microbes, and plants currently in use on the

. In August 2023, BioServe announced that would be collaborating with

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to grow

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stem cells in

to research undergoing treatment for

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