NEW YORK, Nov. 18 - NASA has awarded HTS Biosystems and Ciencia $600,000 to develop space-bound protein-analysis technology, the companies said today.
The Phase II grant, which is part of NASA's Cellular Biotechnology Program, will help HTS Biosystems and Ciencia develop a proteomics biosensor-chip array integrated into a microfluidics cartridge.
NASA's Johnson Space Center Space Station oversees the Cellular Biotechnology Program, which aims at conducting cell-biology research in a microgravity environment.