Dr. Amanda Roberts is the Senior Scientific Director of the Mouse Behavioral Core at Scripps Research. Listen as we talk about microgravity as a model of accelerated aging, NASA’s top-secret agents and what happens to slime in space. (Image Credit: Andrew Roberts)

Show notes:

Amanda’s research profile:

https://vivo.scripps.edu/display/RobertsAmanda

Replay of the NASA launch (action around ~11 minutes in):

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/25/spacex-livestream-watch-the-company-launch-nasa-crs-18-on-a-falcon-9.html

News coverage of the NASA mouse studies:

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/studying-behavior-in-space-shows-mice-adapt-to-microgravity

https://qz.com/1597197/nasas-space-station-mice-loved-microgravity/

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