ISS で始まったライフサイエンス宇宙実験

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Japanese laboratory (JEM: Japan Experiment Module) in the international space station (ISS), ``Kibo'', was launched and assembled to ISS in June 2008, and full-scale experiments have been started in November 2008. In order to create fruitful scientific results using ``Kibo'', three science fields that are ``Space Genome Science'', ``Space Behavioral Science'', and ``Space Environmental Science'' have been set in JAXA, and three research area that are ``Gravity sensing and response in life'', ``Analysis of biological effects of cosmic radiation'', and ``Environmental adaptation and utilization of space'' have been promoted. The first stage of utilization of ``Kibo'' has been now implemented the experiments of ``Space Genome Science'' that focus to analyze biological molecules such as genes and proteins from the cellular level, and at the present time, December 2009, six experiments selected internationally have been already conducted in ISS. This paper will present 4 experiments. Two of them are plant physiology experiment that have been operated in European Space Agency (ESA) experiment module ``Columbus'' using a European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS), and two experiments of the rest are space radiation biology experiments using a Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF) in ``Kibo''.