@inproceedings{4dcc07542ee545b48deb7fe8fbb50430,
title = "Pharmasat: Drug dose dependence results from an autonomous microsystem-based small satellite in low earth orbit",
abstract = "We designed, built, tested, space-qualified, launched, and downlinked bioanalytical data from PharmaSat, the first fully autonomous outer-space pharmaceutical dose-response bioanalytical system on a free-flying satellite. PharmaSat tracks microorganism culture population density and metabolic activity in 48 microw-ells via 3-color optical absorbance. Its 5.1-kg total mass includes solar cells, integrated spacecraft “bus” module (power/batteries/ control/communications), and a sealed containment vessel housing the biofluidic, optical, thermal, and sensor subsystems. Data were obtained from all subsystems over several days following nutrient introduction to initiate growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, followed by challenges with three dose levels of an antifungal agent.",
author = "Ricco, \{A. J.\} and M. Parra and M. Piccini and D. Ly and D. Niesel and M. McGinnis and A. Kudlicki and Hines, \{J. W.\} and L. Timucin and C. Beasley and R. Ricks and M. McIntyre and C. Friedericks and M. Henschke and R. Leung and M. Diaz-Aguado and C. Kitts and I. Mas and R. Rasay and E. Agasid and E. Luzzi and K. Ronzano and D. Squires and B. Yost",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2010TRF.; 2010 Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop ; Conference date: 06-06-2010 Through 10-06-2010",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.31438/trf.hh2010.31",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Technical Digest - Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop",
publisher = "Transducer Research Foundation",
pages = "110--113",
editor = "Monk, \{David J.\} and Turner, \{Kimberly L.\}",
booktitle = "2010 Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop",
}