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hey good morning and welcome to iss

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today i am working on the angie x

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cancer trials up here on iss we've

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actually spent quite a bit of time

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working on this

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and what we're looking at here is

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something called an endothelial cell and

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an endothelial cell you find these cells

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in every blood vessel in your body and

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so people wonder why we're growing these

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cells up on iss and scientists believe

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that

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cells in the body grow very similar up

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here

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on iss a lot of times scientists try and

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grow these endothelial cells in the

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ground and they don't live for very long

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and they think for some reason they grow

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better up here in space and that's one

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of the things we're testing on on orbit

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here and you can see some of these cells

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right here on the computer so why is

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this important

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well endothelial cells help form blood

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supply and tumors need blood supply to

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get bigger and bigger and all of us have

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had someone impacted by cancer whether

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it's a family member or a friend and so

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we're always thinking how can we fight

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this cancer well one thing we're looking

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at is can we grow these cells on orbit

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to test new cancer drugs to prevent that

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blood supply from growing and if we can

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stop that tumor blood supply from

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growing then we can help beat that

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cancer so that's just one of the science

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experiments we're looking at here on the

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space station

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this is where all the cells live in

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their biocell habitat

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and when we're done working with them we

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put them in something called sable 2

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which is up in the ceiling for iss

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and

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comfortable because it is because it's

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just like the temperature of the human

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body and so we let the cells live and

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grow there and we've had them for almost

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two months now up here on iss we feed

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them we give them nutrients

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and they basically live they're like

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miniature crew members living with us so

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we're going to this new biocell

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which is

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delta seven

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and these biocells here have been

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treated with varying levels of

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a cancer chemotherapy drug that is being

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tested out here on iss and so we are

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looking at the cells the researchers

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look at the images that i take for them

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on the microscope to see how well that

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drug is impacting the connection between

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those endothelial cells to see if it

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will stop this tumor blood supply from

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make sure that's level

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same position for forest and face slider

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at the left push position for the first

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and you can see some of these

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tubule formations here also

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yeah it's a good spot you do see

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definitely some of the tubule formations

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here

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and some of the gaps in between the