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USC experimer
ERIN GALLOWAY 1
ALLISON WILLIAMS News Editors I
Two USC experiments will be I
l part of NASA's Endeavour Space
; Shuttle mission, which is scheduled j
\ for a Sept 2 launch at Cape Canaver\
al, Fla.
This will be the second shuttle I
* project for five pharmacy students H
I who are developing new drugs to
treat cancer, and for School of MedI
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cle cells.
In March, pharmacy professor pr
Edward Piepmeier and the students
sent an experiment on the Endeav- ***%.
or to study the effect of an anti-cancer
drug on leukemia cells in zero v
gravity. Piepmeier has analyzed the
cancer cells from the March experiment
and, after comparing them with
cells treated on Earth, noticed a difference
in the way that drugs are dis- jj^HPftQftk
trubted within cells.
"We received good data from our ft.
first experiment. We have some exciting
information on how drugs are m
distrbuted in cells, both in gravity
and in low gravity conditions. This
is important to understanding drug
resistance," Piepmeier said. '
On the shuttle, USC College of
Pharmacy researchers will repeat the Student researc
first experiment with Adriamycin, a Steve Aiken. Thl
drug used to treat breast cancer and
leukemia.
David Simpson, a research assistant professor, said
the long-term goal of the School of Medicine's project
is to address the problem that heart muscle cells do
not divide. A heart attack, for example, causes heart
muscle cells to die, leaving a weakened area of the
heart.
"If this project is successful, we can progress towards
cloning human cells," said Louis Terracio, developmental
biology and anatomy professor in the
School of Medicine.
Terracio said cells will only grow one layer thick
on Earth, but while in reduced-gravity in space, the
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cells will hopefully produce multiple layers. Researchers
hope to recreate the reduced-gravity conditions in the
uterus which help a fetus' cells grow.
If researchers are successful in cloning the cells,
the need for a full heart transplant would be eliminated,
according to Terracio. Instead, damaged areas
of the heart would be replaced by the cloned cells.
Torracio said that the NASA bioreactor used in
projects similar to this one is not compatible with the
USC project. He said he hopes the success of this project
will convince NASA engineers to change their
bioreactor.
Students involved are undergraduate pharmacy
students Steve Aiken, Les Brewer and Elizabeth Mead,
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and graduate students Ronald Stroman and Andrew
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before the launch.
The students are responsible for transporting and
packing the cells. Packing the cells takes about 12
hours and must be done 16 hours before the shuttle
takes off, Mead said.
"It's been a lot of fun to go to Florida and see a space
shuttle launch. Ifs something I never thought Fd get
to do. I always dreamed of working for NASA," Mead
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U.USON WILLIAMS News Editor "The companies were left to do a lot
I ~~ ? on their own. Well take vou from where
A vision that the USL provost SA,. ^ de6 ^ off "Well ^ ,ad to
:overnor and many others once shared ^ down md ^ether a feaajbi]i
s becoming a reality through a new ^ and market study
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