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Re:Cancer cells die in microgravity conditions – study by vanderZwan on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:01AM (#21712299)
> From what I have learned during my studies is that it is easy to kill cell cultures

The linked article mentions:

> only at zero-gravity do cells die via "programmed cell death"

Isn't triggering apoptosis a little different than not being able to keep cells alive?

Of course, this changes nothing about your other points - there are a lot of fishy things going on here

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Re:Cancer cells die in microgravity conditions – study by Tzela on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:59PM (#21714503)
It is, but you'd need to verify the difference somehow, with fluorescent markers for example. But they appear to have only counted the surviving cells.
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Re:Cancer cells die in microgravity conditions – study by vanderZwan on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:21PM (#21714730)
... ok so they have an unverified claim of apoptosis too? Yikes, that just makes it worse!
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