Today we went on a trip to the mini golf course: fluorescent spheroids to play with...

During our visit to the Institute of Aerospace Medicine (DLR Cologne), we had the opportunity to tour a hermetically sealed former wind tunnel. Its complete isolation makes it possible to simulate biological experiments aboard spacecraft or space stations (closed-loop systems) or even to study plant growth under conditions similar to those on the Moon or Mars.

The CANCEROIDS team completed the first SVT on the FLUMIAS Science Reference Model at the DLR User Center for Space Experiments (MUSC) in Cologne.

Both José's contribution "Gravity Sensing in 3D: Cytoskeletal Gene Regulation in Breast Cancer Spheroids“ and Shashank's contribution ”Beyond the Pulse: Gravitational Responses in an Artificial Circulatory System" were selected by the International Society for Gravitational Physiology for presentation at this year's annual meeting in Cologne (25.-29.05.2026).

José Luis Cortés Sánchez presented parts of our cancer research at the 37th German Cancer Congress (Deutscher Krebskongress) in Berlin: Molecular Changes of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cell Lines in Simulated Microgravity Platforms