Wound healing under simulated microgravity
Leanne Fan · San Diego, California
Sixth Place ($80,000) · Regeneron Science Talent Search · 2026
A bench apparatus that simulates microgravity conditions, used to test whether red-light treatment accelerates tissue regeneration in flatworms and human cell models.
Reported tissue regeneration sped up by 95.2% under the treatment condition.
Building the apparatus is what made the question askable at all. Running the same intervention in both an invertebrate and a human cell model is a cheap way to show the effect is not an artefact of one system.
- Simulated microgravity apparatus
- Red-light photobiomodulation
- Flatworm regeneration assay
- Human cell model testing
- When the condition you need does not exist on Earth, the rig that simulates it is part of the contribution
- Testing one intervention in two model systems is the cheapest replication available to you
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