Nano Ghosts - Winner of the finals in the Spacelab 2021 Contest – Dekel Vilnai, Ma’ale Adumim

The Dekel Vilnai, Ma’ale Adumim School is part of the Ramon Foundation’s SpaceLab Program with Prof. Marcelle Machluf's Lab, Technion

Nano Ghosts are nanometric cells (nanometer - a length unit of measure equal to one billionth of a meter), which are extracted from mesenchymal stem cell membranes (stem cells are the cells which have not yet specialized into a specific kind of tissue), which are in all the body’s organs, and which fulfills three functions:
1. To heal an injured organ in the body itself
2. To produce materials which help other cells to survive and divide
3. To arrest immune reactions, in other words - to help stop the spread of infections

In this experiment, we are going to examine how microgravity affects the nano ghosts when they are coated in PEG polymer, compared with nano ghosts which are not coated with PEG polymer.