An upcoming resupply mission will carry tumor samples to the International Space Station for research. Experiments in microgravity have yielded shocking results: Some tumors triple in size in just 10 days—the kind of growth that could take 10 years on Earth. What does that mean for science, and for astronauts? 
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Dr. Meenal Datta studies the physics of cancer at the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering in Indiana.
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