Space biology projects in Ukraine: nowadays trends

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Space Life Sciences
1Kordyum, EL
1M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Space Sci. & Technol. 2023, 29 ;(1):36-51
https://doi.org/10.15407/knit2023.01.036
Publication Language: Ukrainian
Abstract: 

A brief overview of the results of the implementation of biological projects in the Target Program for scientific space research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2018–2022) is presented to current fields of world space biology: astrobiology, cellular and molecular biology, plant biology, animal biology, and gravitational biology.
Keywords: animal biology, astrobiology, cellular and molecular biology, gravitational biology, plant biology
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