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What our company does is we've built the

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new technology that we call auto-

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bioluminescence and this is basically a

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big step forward in bioluminescent

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imaging where instead of intermittent

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snapshots of data acquisition we can

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continuously monitor any living cell so

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healthy happy cells glow very brightly.

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As the cells become sick they become dim

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and if they die the light goes out. Our

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hope is that we can provide a way for

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these pharmaceutical companies to do

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their screening at low cost in low-Earth

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orbit and get better information about

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the safety and potential functionality

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of these new drug compounds. The MVP

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locker will stay onboard the station

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permanently and then only experiment

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modules will be inserted by the crew

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over time and today we're so excited

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that the first user of our MVP payload

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is NASA. What we're planning to do is to

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use the fly sort of as a surrogate

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because you can get large sample sizes

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to test different kinds of pathogens and

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their changes as they're happening in

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space. So we in fact with the Techshot

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team loaded 50 flies for the for this

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first chamber. When we get it down in a

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month we expect to get at least a

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hundred times that. We're launching seven

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new ways of growing plants in space. It's

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essentially using a plant cylinder

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within a reservoir

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it uses capillary action to bring the

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liquid up into the plant reservoir where

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there's a substrate and slow-release

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fertilizer pellets. The seeds are up here.

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They germinate, they grow within the

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Veggie unit and it's replacing the

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current baseline nutrient delivery

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system. ASIM is a payload that's

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developed by the European Space Agency

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to study severe thunderstorms.

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Particularly what we are interested in is

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gigantic lightning shooting up from

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thunderstorm clouds up to to the edge of

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space. The things that we are looking for

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are really new, relatively newly discovered

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so this will be the first time that we

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launch a specially designed instrument

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to to look for these things in space.

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