A pioneering UK research project is being launched to study the three-dimensional spread of cancer cells in microgravity.
Cancer cells will be sent to space in an effort to learn more about an incurable childhood tumour.
Diffuse midline glioma is an aggressive and incurable brain tumour that is most common in children, and most sufferers die within 18 months of being diagnosed. Among the disease's victims was Karen Armstrong, daughter of the late US astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon in 1969.
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