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• Growing plants on the International Space Station — The ADVANCED ASTROCULTURE™ facility is being used to grow the first plants that produce seeds on the International Space Station, a feat never before done in space. Before the flight, this plant growth unit was tested at the Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the NASA Commercial Space Center that built the hardware... Click HERE to read more.

• Healing power of light — Glowing red light emitted by light-emitting diodes or LEDs has been used to grow plants on NASA's Space Shuttle. Now, doctors at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee are using this near-infrared light to promote wound healing... Click HERE to read more.

• Wound healing device — The wound-healing device made by Quantum Devices Inc. in Barneveld, Wis., is a small 3.5-inch by 4.5-inch (90 by 145-millimeter) portable, flat array of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs. A nurse practitioner places the LED array on the outside of a patient's cheek where it shines for just over a minute each day, promoting wound healing and preventing mouth sores caused by radiation and chemotherapy. Quantum Devices, the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and researchers at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee are conducting the multi-year project through a contract with the Technology Transfer Department at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. (NASA/MSFC photo by B. Himelhoch, Medical Center Graphics Inc)... Click HERE for photo.

• First Brain Cancer Surgeries Using New Space-Age Probe Are Successful — For the first time, surgeons have used a special lighting technology, developed for space-based commercial plant growth research on NASA’s Space Shuttle, in two successful operations to treat brain cancer on Earth... Click HERE to read more.

• LED Device Illuminates New Path to Healing — Among NASA’s research goals is increased understanding of factors affecting plant growth, including the effects of microgravity. Impeding such studies, traditional light sources used to grow plants on Earth are difficult to adapt to space flight, as they require considerable amounts of power and produce relatively large amounts of heat. As such, an optimized experimental system requires much less energy and reduces temperature variance without negatively affecting plant growth results... Click HERE to read more.

•Dr. Harry Whelan talks about how LED might be used in hospitals around the country... Click HERE for NASA Video Release.

• LED Device Illuminates New Path to Healing — NASA-developed technologies have found new uses in a variety of medical-related applications. Here we highlight some of those spinoff innovations that had their roots in NASA... Click HERE to read more.

• Medical Researchers Apply NASA Space Technology to Cancer Treatment — When it comes to finding new solutions for cancer treatment, resourceful researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin are collaborating with scientific communities outside the world of medicine... Click HERE to read more.

• Katie and NASA Beating Cancer — Meet Katie Pederson: age 21, straight-A University of Wisconsin student, Green Bay Packers fan, and a cancer survivor against all odds... Click HERE to read more.

• NASA Space Technology Shines Light on Healing — C. Joan M. Cwiklinski, a nurse practitioner at the Medical College of Wisconsin, explains how the LED treatment is administered... Click HERE to read more.

• SBIR/STTR Hallmarks of Success Videos: Quantum Devices, Inc. — Quantum Devices, Inc. (QDI) Barneveld, WI, was established as a Wisconsin corporation in October 1989, as an outgrowth of activities in the general area of optoelectronics... Click HERE to read more.

• Solid State Photon Emission Probe for Application with Photodynamic Therapy — Tiny pinhead-size Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) developed for NASA Space Shuttle plant growth experiments... Click HERE to read more.

• LED-Based Lighting for Treating Mucositis — Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), originally developed for NASA Space Shuttle plant growth experiments, are being used to treat mucositis, severe oral and digestive tract sores resulting from high-dose chemotherapty... Click HERE to read more.

• LED-Based Lighting Treatment for Cancer — Using technology derived from NASA Space Shuttle plant growth experiments, an MSFC SBIR team has used tiny, pinhead-sized light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the treatment of cancer...Click HERE to read more.

• LED-Based Lighting Treatment for Wound Healing — Light-emitting diodes (LEDs), developed for NASA Space Shuttle plant growth experiments, are being used in the treatment of wounds... Click HERE to read more.

• WARP 10 Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Device — The WARP [Warfighter Accelerated Recovery by Photobiomodulation] 10 is a high-intensity, portable LED unit intended for treatment of chronic pain by emitting energy in the near-infrared (IR) spectrum for the temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain... Click HERE to read more.

• WARP 75 Light-Emitting Diode (LED) Device — The technology is a high-intensity LED unit intended for the treatment of chronic pain. This includes the temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain, arthritis, muscle spasms, and stiffness... Click HERE to read more.