Research on bone loss due to space travel

A researcher from the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco was named 2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellow by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, and will receive a total of $80,000 over a 2 year period to study the causes and possible treatments of bone loss due to the weightlessness of space travel. His research will also have applications for medical patients that are unable to move and also experience the same 'skeletal unloading' state because of the bone cells being unable to replace old bone cells that naturally die off.