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SpinCam: High-Gravity (100G) Camera
An anonymous reader writes "Centrifuge-cameras began exploration of genetic changes at the extremes of high gravity-- in the only animal with a completely sequenced gene library. Students at Harvey Mudd designed the 100G camera, Stanford is doing the gene array and NASA is spinning the 1 millimeter worms that are the model system for how to adapt and survive 100-times your terrestrial weight. Accelerated aging and slowed DNA repair are just two biological consequences of gravity changes. The Japanese (NASDA) are building the space station centrifuge for 2006. What other garden-variety objects can be photographed in that kind of ultra-spindryer?"
A lot of the science fiction stories i read speak of living longer in zero/low g, since obviously theres less strain on most of the systems of the body. I wonder if this is finally evidence for this fun idea?
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only animal with a fully-sequenced genome
I believe that the human genome project also has a complete sequence of our genome as well.