Iowa State University lab examines muscle and bone deterioration in space and on Earth

By: Brooklyn Draisey

Outlets: Iowa Capital Dispatch

Published: July 17, 2026

Words: 800

Last Updated: 1 day, 15 hours ago

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Researchers at Iowa State University have earned national recognition for their work connecting the impact of space on astronauts to potential treatments for muscle loss here on Earth.

Khaled Kamal, assistant professor of kinesiology and health at ISU, leads the university’s Musculoskeletal Redox & Therapeutics Laboratory where, along with graduate and undergraduate researchers, he works on different projects to identify biological markers for exercise and create countermeasures to mitigate muscle deterioration.

While he doesn’t want …

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