---
title: "Laurence Vico"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Laurence Vico"
aliases: ["Vico","L. Vico","Laurence Vico"]
first_seen: "2026-08-22T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["spaceflight bone loss","trabecular-cortical","HR-pQCT","bed rest analog","Jörn Rittweger"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


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