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Show Ds The Salt Lake Tribune SCIENCE & MEDICINE Thursday, November22, 2001 Cranberries Are Good for Science Experiments to Fly on Shuttle More than Juice or Relish urine As the tart, colorfulfruit of yesearch ing fertilizer in space with phosphate ore and water. The continued their never been proven. Researchers now say that thefirst visitors to Mars shouldbeabletousesoil there the folklore remedy may hold true. A preliminary study pub- to grow crops in greenhouses. Fortheirlatest experiment, students opted to makeartifi to see a recurrencewithin six and Andrew Auman, USU,stand behind a payloadsetto go up on the Space Shuttle Endeavour beck and Rick Rambo, both with Utah State University; Tony Messina of Shoshone-Bannock; was worried about being over: next week. Utah and Idaho students designed experimentsforthe launch. “Cranberries contain a type of condensed tannin that whelmedwith too manyurine Also, affect the study’s “We’re trying to help out with growing vegetablesandplants in space,” A computerattached to the water-extracting. device will runthe experimentoncein orbit, Galindosaid. Students will already have a sequel in mind fora futurelaunch, “The fourth one is ‘More Fun with Urine,” he explained. Water taken from urine would be added to dry pig- ments to create paints. If astronauts need time off from scienceor math, they couldex: press themselves on a canvas. ediicate about space.” senior who is the Get Away Special payload manager, the Loganunive: y has said sent up12 payloadssince 1982. Experiment jueezedinto a garbage ca japed containers with2.5 cubic feet of space. “They've mostly been our ments, but we decidedto do an outreach payload,” she said, “It gives us a chance to get out in the schools and USUhelps schools with the NASA government paperwork. payload experiments. container carries its berries powersource, a battery. “They'll see people relishes. American growers now More researchis needed to makethe findings definitive, the study’s authors said. produce about 98 percent of They conducted the research the world’s cranberries, thanksin large part to decades of work by farmers in Massachusetts and New Jer- at the University of Oulu in Finland. Rutgers University in New and places they’ve never dreamed about,”hesaid. vitamins, manyfruits, they are also a good source of fiber as they appear in juices, jellies or properties.” eral, Fla., to see the launch. Someof his students have not ventured far from the reservation, muchless seen the ocean. have cancer-fighting antioxidants and essential minerals like potassium andcalcium.Like berries will work too but wine,citrusfruits, and tea do not have the same Each own Galindo said he is taking will flip a switch turning on the cropsthat wasto blame. Today, doctors know cran- group, HealthSite, in response to thefindings. “Blue/ his students to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canav- Once the Space Shuttle reaches orbit, an astronaut learned later it wasn’t the -berries but the chemical pesticides sprayed on. berry orado health and education cal support throughout the design process. All three high schools competed against nation to secure a spot on the SpaceShuttle. berries took a hit after they were linked to diets suspected of causing cancer. Scientists neys,”said the nonprofit Col- Thecollege also offers techni- other schools from across the as gout, rheumatism, diarrhea, constipation, scurvy, fevers and skin infections. In the 1950s, though, cran- ventingit from sticking to the walls of the bladderand kid- SKYLER SMITH Shoshone-Bannock Junior/Senior High School Arlynda Jorgensen, a USU indo said his students berry is commonly used as a folk remedyfor illnesses such seemsto stunt the growth of the E. coli bacterium, pre- since everyresults. says the Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine. The bout of UTI are half as likely Ed Galindo, of Shoshone-Bannock Junior/Senior High Schoolin Idaho,left; Stephen Fonnes- his students, Galindo said he samples. ries in the world, including show women who suffer a Utah State University months if they drank a glass of cranberry juice each day. one’s urineis different, it could than 100 species of cranber- the popular American variety Vaccinium macrocarpon, denceto earlier findings that us But given the enthusiasm of ficial can come from the more lished by the British Medical Journal in June lends cre- ial, lab-gradeurine. urine,” then surely something bene- scientifically Thespuds sprouted, meaning own human Galindosaid. acid found incitrus fruits, bacteria-fighting effects have toes in simulated Martiansoil our experts worry the bacteria are becoming resistant to the drugs. If scurvy can be prevented by consuming the ascorbic vent urinarytract infection, or UTI, for years, but the astro-agricultural theme with roject to grow Idaho pota- e approved to nal. The condition is usually treated with antibiotics, but chemicals as a way to boost health andbattle infection. Women have been drinking cranberry juice to pre- The school’s first experi ment in space involved creat students cording to the British jour- the cranberryplant makesits, way to countless holiday tables, science is homing in on the cranberry’s natural a when the started. effect of cranberries. 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