Do Stem Cells Grow Better in Space? | Cedars-Sinai

Using a combination of stock and premade imagery, I edited and overview video for one of Cedars Sinai's Regenerative Medicine Institute stem cell experiments. The video details research by Dr. Clive Svendsen and Dr. Dhruv Sareen who lead a team of Cedars-Sinai scientists looking for new ways to produce large numbers of induced pluripotent stem cells to be used in clinical trials. These cells can be programmed to generate almost any tissue of the human body and later developed into experimental treatments for a wide range of diseases.

The team sent a shoebox-sized container holding bags filled with stem cells taken from Sareen and Svendsen into space to determine whether the cells could grow better without gravity. The researchers will run the experiment remotely using a box of cells on Earth for comparison.