Fundamental biological features of spaceflight: advancing the field to enable deep-space exploration

E Afshinnekoo, RT Scott, MJ MacKay, E Pariset… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Research on astronaut health and model organisms have revealed six features of
spaceflight biology that guide our current understanding of fundamental molecular changes …

Axes of a revolution: challenges and promises of big data in healthcare

S Shilo, H Rossman, E Segal - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Health data are increasingly being generated at a massive scale, at various levels of
phenotyping and from different types of resources. Concurrent with recent technological …

Comprehensive multi-omics analysis reveals mitochondrial stress as a central biological hub for spaceflight impact

WA da Silveira, H Fazelinia, SB Rosenthal, EC Laiakis… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Spaceflight is known to impose changes on human physiology with unknown molecular
etiologies. To reveal these causes, we used a multi-omics, systems biology analytical …

Observation of the fastest chemical processes in the radiolysis of water

ZH Loh, G Doumy, C Arnold, L Kjellsson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Elementary processes associated with ionization of liquid water provide a framework for
understanding radiation-matter interactions in chemistry and biology. Although numerous …

The therapeutic landscape for cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors

M MacKay, E Afshinnekoo, J Rub, C Hassan… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Despite the global rapid increase in the number of clinical trials employing chimeric antigen
receptors (CARs), no comprehensive survey of their scope, targets and design exists. In this …

Challenges to the central nervous system during human spaceflight missions to Mars

GR Clément, RD Boyle, KA George… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Space travel presents a number of environmental challenges to the central nervous system,
including changes in gravitational acceleration that alter the terrestrial synergies between …

Gut microbiome and space travelers' health: state of the art and possible pro/prebiotic strategies for long-term space missions

S Turroni, M Magnani, P Kc, P Lesnik, H Vidal… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The upcoming exploration missions will imply a much longer duration than any of the
missions flown so far. In these missions, physiological adaptation to the new environment …

Telomere length dynamics and DNA damage responses associated with long-duration spaceflight

JJ Luxton, MJ McKenna, A Lewis, LE Taylor… - Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
Telomere length dynamics and DNA damage responses were assessed before, during, and
after one-year or shorter duration missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in a …

Telomere length: how the length makes a difference

M Lulkiewicz, J Bajsert, P Kopczynski… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - Springer
Telomerase is perceived as an immortality enzyme that might provide longevity to cells and
whole organisms. Importantly, it is generally inactive in most somatic cells of healthy, adult …

The case for biotech on Mars

SN Nangle, MY Wolfson, L Hartsough, NJ Ma… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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