Effects of Weightlessness on Molecular Changes in Cellular Organisms, Animals and Plants

Daniela Grimm^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.
² Research Group "Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt- und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen" (MARS), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.
³ Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.

Editorial

Daniela Grimm. Biomolecules. 2025.

. 2025 Aug 21;15(8):1207.

doi: 10.3390/biom15081207.

Daniela Grimm^{1

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3}

¹ Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.
² Research Group "Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt- und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen" (MARS), Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany.
³ Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark.

Abstract

Space travel is a dream of humankind [...].

The author declares no conflicts of interest.

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