Research team in LDC facility

The research team made use of the lab in ESTEC’s LDC facility for sample preparation and analysis. The group from University of San Carlos and Holy Name University in the Philippines form the latest international group to employ ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge. The researchers are testing how bioprinted bone cells respond to hypergravity when grown on 3D-printed scaffolds made from carrageenan – a carbohydrate extracted from seaweed farmed in the tropics. From left to right: Dr. Rommel Bacabac; Mary Diane Pilapil; Zachary Borromeo; Dr. Hyacinth Suarez.