High school students from Shchakim School in Nahariya achieved a remarkable feat – their groundbreaking research on degenerative diseases in space was published in Astrobiology, a leading journal in the field of space biology. The study, part of the Ramon SpaceLab program by the Ramon Foundation, was conducted in collaboration with researchers from the University of Haifa and Oranim College. It involved a unique experimental system designed to investigate the effects of space travel on degenerative diseases of the nervous system, specifically Huntington’s Disease, and was conducted both in space and on Earth. “The fact that high school students co-authored a paper in a leading scientific journal is an impressive and rare achievement,” said Dr. Amir Sapir, who led the research from the Department of Biology and Environment at the University of Haifa-Oranim Campus. “I hope we can pursue follow-up research in the future, both in space and on Earth, alongside young researchers.” READ MORE in JPost