A specialized facility scheduled to be installed on the International Space Station in 2005.
Current plans call for it to support both cell science and protein crystal growth research.
A modular cassette-style bioreactor that can accommodate multiple cell culture chambers. It is under development at MIT for the NASA Life Sciences Division. Unit containing robotic instrumentation that harvests, mounts, and freezes protein crystal samples. Advisory panel for NASA on the scope of research announcements, peer review practices, and future programmatic directions. For research planning purposes, this is assumed to be approximately 100 days.