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Ryutai Experiment Rack (Ryutai)
Fluid Physics Experiment Facility (FPEF)
Solution Crystallization Observation Facility (SCOF)
Protein Crystallization Research Facility (PCRF)
Image Processing Unit (IPU)
Kobairo Rack :
Gradient Heating Furnace (GHF)
Saibo Experiment Rack (Saibo)
Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF)
Clean Bench (CB)
Lab Support Equipments and other smaller instruments
The Minus Eighty Degree Celsius Laboratory Freezer for the International Space Station (MELFI)
Biological Experiment Unit (BEU)
High Definition TeleVision transmitting system (HDTV)
Passive Dosimeter for Life Science Experiments in Space (PADLES)
Human Research Facility Holter Monitor
Payload Laptop Terminal (PLT)
Microgravity Measurement Apparatus (MMA),
Utility DC/DC Converter Unit (UDC)
External scientific hardware:

Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility

=== Poisk ===

Multipurpose workstation (MWS)

=== ISS small hardware ===
Actiwatch (Actiwatch)
BioServe Culture Apparatus (BCA)
Biological Research in Canisters for OptiCells (BRIC-Opti)
Human Research Facility Continuous Blood Pressure Device (CBPD)
Hand Grip Dynamometer Pinch Force Dynamometer (HGD-PFD)
Human Research Facility Holter Monitor (Holter)
Kennedy Space Center Fixation Tube (KFT)
Portable Clinical Blood Analyzer - i-STAT (PCBA)
Radiation Area Monitor (RAM)
Tissue Equivalent Proportional Counter (TEPC)
Urine Monitoring System (UMS)
Vegetable Production System (Veggie)

=== ISS sub-rack ===
 

Advanced Biological Research System (ABRS)
Advanced Protein Crystallization Facility (APCF)
ARCTIC Refrigerator-Freezer (ARCTIC)
Biotechnology Specimen Temperature Controller (BSTC)
Biotechnology Temperature Refrigerator (BTR)
Boiling Experiment Facility (BXF)
Clean Bench (CB)
Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF)
Commercial Generic Bioprocessing Apparatus (CGBA)
Commercial Plant Biotechnology Facility (CPBF)
Commercial Refrigerator Incubator Module - Modified (CRIM-M)
European Modular Cultivation System (EMCS)
Fluid Physics Experiment Facility (FPEF)
Flywheel Exercise Device (FWED)
Image Processing Unit (IPU)
Mice Drawer System Facility (MDS_Facility)
Microgravity Vibration Isolation Subsystem (MVIS)
Portable Astroculture Chamber (PASC)
Protein Crystal Growth - Single Locker Thermal Enclosure System (PCG-STES)
Protein Crystallization Research Facility (PCRF)
Pulmonary Function System (PFS)
Portable Glovebox (PGB)
Refrigerated Centrifuge (RC)
Solution Crystallization Observation Facility (SCOF)
Space Linear Acceleration Mass Measurement Device (SLAMMD)
Human Research Facility Ultrasound on the International Space Station (Ultrasound)

=== ISS stowage ===

Autonomous Biological System (ABS)
Advanced Space Experiment Processor (ADSEP)
Astro Garden
Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC)
Cell Culturing (CellCult)
Group Activation Pack - Fluid Processing Apparatus (GAP-FPA)
Granada Crystallization Facility (GCF)

=== ISS mid-deck locker ===

Avian Development Facility (ADF)
Animal Enclosure Module (AEM)
General Laboratory Active Cryogenic ISS Experiment Refrigerator (GLACIER)
Microgravity Experiment Research Locker Incubator (MERLIN)
T-Cell Growth System (T-CGS)
Polar (Research Refrigerator for ISS)

=== ISS mid-deck locker insert ===

Biotube
Kennedy Space Center Gaseous Nitrogen Freezer (GN2)

== JAXA's ISS research and science activity ==

=== Experiments ===

Chaos, Turbulence and its Transition Process in Marangoni Convection Marangoni Exp (Fluid Physics Experiment Facility (FPEF) )
Spatio-temporal Flow Structure in Marangoni Convection (Marangoni UVP/MaranGoniat) (Fluid Physics Experiment Facility (FPEF) )
Experimental Assessment of Dynamic Surface Deformation Effects in Transition to Oscillatory Thermo capillary Flow in Liquid Bridge of High Prandtl Number Fluid (Fluid Physics Experiment Facility (FPEF) )
Pattern Formation during Ice Crystal Growth (Ice Crystal) (Solution Crystallization Observation Facility (SCOF) )
Investigation on Mechanism of Faceted Cellular Array Growth (Facet) (Solution Crystallization Observation Facility (SCOF) )
Growth of Homogeneous SiGe Crystals in Microgravity by the TLZ Method (Hicari) (Gradient Heating Furnace (GHF) )
Gene expression of p53-regulated Genes in Mammalian Cultured Cells after Exposure to Space Environment (Rad Gene)
Detection of Changes in LOH Profile of TK mutants of Human Cultured Cells (LOH)
Control of cell differentiation and morphogenesis of amphibian culture cells (Dome Gene)
Integrated Assessment of Long-term Cosmic Radiation Through Biological Responses of the Silkworm, Bombyx mori, in Space (Rad Silk)
RNA interference and protein phosphorylation in space environment using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (CERISE)
Cbl-Mediated Protein Ubiquitination Downregulates the Response of Skeletal Muscle Cells to Growth Factors in Space (Myo Lab)
Hydrotropism and Auxin-Inducible Gene Expression in Roots Grown under Microgravity Conditions (Hydro Tropi)
Biological effects of space radiation and microgravity on mammalian cells (Neuro Rad)
Life Cycle of Higher Plants under Microgravity Conditions (Space Seed)
Regulation by Gravity of Ferulate Formation in Cell Walls of Rice Seedlings (Ferulate)

==== Applied research fields ====
High Quality Protein Crystallization Research (HQPC)
Applied research core center promotion program New material development (Protein Crystallization Research Facility (PCRF))
Applied research core center promotion program Dynamics of Interfaces (Cell Biology Experiment Facility (CBEF))

==== Human space technology development fields ====
Passive Dosimeter for Life Science Experiments in Space (PADLES)
High Definition TeleVision transmitting system (HDTV)
Varidation of On-orbit Digital Holter ECG Monitoring
Bisphosphonates as a Countermeasure to Space Flight Induced Bone Loss

==== Educational and cultural utilization fields ====
Space Poem Chain (ISS Experiment)
Pilot missions for utilization for culture and humanity and social sciences

==== Commercial utilization fields ====
Fee-based utilization of Kibo is available to unrestricted research groups for commercial use. Costs involved in the operation will be paid by each user. The results obtained through the utilization will belong to the user.

==== Exposed facility experiments ====
Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI)
Space Environment Data Acquisition Equipment - Attached Payload (SEDA-AP)
Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb Emission Sounder (SMILES)

== NASA's ISS research and science activity ==

=== Human research ===

==== Effect of prolonged space flight on human skeletal muscle ====

Bisphosphonates as a Countermeasure to Space Flight Induced Bone Loss (Bisphosphonates)
Commercial Biomedical Testing Module: Effects of Osteoprotegerin on Bone Maintenance in Microgravity (CBTM)
Commercial Biomedical Test Module - 2 (CBTM-2)
Foot Reaction Forces During Space Flight (Foot)
Effects of Altered Gravity on Spinal Cord Excitability (H-Reflex)
Hand Posture Analyzer (HPA)
Renal Stone Risk During Spaceflight: Assessment and Countermeasure Validation (Renal_Stone)
Spinal Elongation and its Effects on Seated Height in a Microgravity Environment (Spinal_Elongation)
Subregional Assessment of Bone Loss in the Axial Skeleton in Long-term Space Flight (Subregional_Bone)