Laurence Vico

French bone physiologist (INSERM / Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne) whose high-resolution pQCT studies of cosmonauts established that trabecular bone and cortical porosity fail to recover in the year after long-duration spaceflight while cortical mass and density do. She is the first author of the 2017 Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study that is Böcker et al. 2026's reference 12 (claim-vico-2017-post-spaceflight-cortical-recovers-trabecular-does-not).

Within this vault she is the bridge figure between the earlier primary spaceflight-compartment literature and the new comparison study: she is simultaneously the author of ref 12 and a co-author of the 2026 Böcker head-to-head paper anchored by entity-jorn-rittweger — the paper that gives the vault its site- and instrument-matched spaceflight-vs-bed-rest bone comparison. Her work is one of the two spaceflight-side pillars under the compartment dissociation (claim-bocker-refs-support-bedrest-cortical-spaceflight-trabecular-dissociation).

References

• claim-vico-2017-post-spaceflight-cortical-recovers-trabecular-does-not · claim-bocker-refs-support-bedrest-cortical-spaceflight-trabecular-dissociation
• Captures: 2026-08-16-does-the-compartment-level-literature-böckers-refs-12