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If NASA is involved in the search for life, shouldn't it have working alliances with life sciences institutions? Can future spacecraft be modeled after life forms, being born and growing in remote corners of the solar system? Can the search for the cure for cancer be accelerated through new applications of space program technologies? These and other such thought-provoking questions were the topic at the First NASA-National Cancer Institute (NCI) Workshop on Sensors for Bio-Molecular Signatures, held at the Doubletree Hotel in Pasadena, June 2-4. The event was designed for multi-disciplinary teams to explore ways that NASA engineers and NCI researchers can work together in coming years. In attendance, from left, were: JPL Director Dr. Edward Stone; NASA Administrator Dan Goldin; Caltech President Dr. David Baltimore; NCI Director Dr. Richard Klausner; Dr. Carol Dahl, Director, Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, NCI; and Dr. Leon Alkalai, Manager, NASA Center for Integrated Space Microsystems, JPL, coordinator of the workshop.
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If NASA is involved in the search for life, shouldn't it have working alliances with life sciences institutions? Can future spacecraft be modeled after life forms, being born and growing in remote corners of the solar system? Can the search for the cure for cancer be accelerated through new applications of space program technologies? These and other such thought-provoking questions were the topic at the First NASA-National Cancer Institute (NCI) Workshop on Sensors for Bio-Molecular Signatures, held at the Doubletree Hotel in Pasadena, June 2-4. The event was designed for multi-disciplinary teams to explore ways that NASA engineers and NCI researchers can work together in coming years. In attendance, from left, were: JPL Director Dr. Edward Stone; NASA Administrator Dan Goldin; Caltech President Dr. David Baltimore; NCI Director Dr. Richard Klausner; Dr. Carol Dahl, Director, Office of Technology and Industrial Relations, NCI; and Dr. Leon Alkalai, Manager, NASA Center for Integrated Space Microsystems, JPL, coordinator of the workshop.
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