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SCORPIO-V specializes in creating automated microfluidic and imaging platforms for sophisticated cell biology, tissue and organ-on-a-chip investigations. The high-throughput, remote-controlled and automated features allow long-term experiments with multiple drug delivery options supporting drug discovery, cancer biology, stem cell, Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) research and individualized cancer and stem cell therapies.  SCORPIO-V has developed the BioChip SpaceLab, an automated microfluidic and microscopy facility for long-term live-cell investigations onboard the International Space Station National Lab (ISS-NL).  SCORPIO-V specializes in performing chemistry, cell biology, tissue and organ-on-a-chip investigations in microgravity to increase our understanding of long-term spaceflight on human physiology.  Furthermore, the unique environment of the National Lab and SCORPIO-V’s BioChip SpaceLab allows investigators to harness the microgravity conditions to model human dysfunction including, but not limited to, age related reproductive, musculockeletal, immune and cognitive dysfunction for drug discovery.  The BioChip SpaceLab is designed to automate temperature and fluidic requirements to maintain cell and tissue cultures for weeks to months while performing live-cell microscopy in microgravity. SCOPRIO-V is pleased to announce that the PIMMS microscopy suite will also be installed on the ISS-NL.  PIMMS will provide crew members and investigators an advanced microscope capable of 3D, polarized, confocal and fluorescence microscopy techniques to observe the physical and life science phenomena that occurs in a microgravity environment.   SCORPIO-V provide researchers a wide variety of products and services to support long-term live-cell biological interrogations as well as physical science investigations both on-ground and in-orbit.