Mount Sinai Sends 16 Beating Heart Organoids to ISS to Study Aging

Mount Sinai researchers, with NASA and Space Tango, sent 16 beating heart organoids to the ISS for six months aboard the CRS-35 mission. Microgravity compresses cellular changes equivalent to 10–20 years of aging on Earth, potentially accelerating drug screening for heart failure and Alzheimer's.

• 16 heart organoids housed on two microfluidic chips in the CubeLab system
• Six months in space equals about 10–20 years of aging on Earth
• Brain organoids run as a separate investigation on the same mission
• Findings could speed drug screening for heart failure and Alzheimer's