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 …

Biomonitoring and precision health in deep space supported by artificial intelligence

RT Scott, LM Sanders, EL Antonsen… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Human exploration of deep space will involve missions of substantial distance and duration.
To effectively mitigate health hazards, paradigm shifts in astronaut health systems are …

Single-cell multi-ome and immune profiles of the Inspiration4 crew reveal conserved, cell-type, and sex-specific responses to spaceflight

JK Kim, BT Tierney, EG Overbey, E Dantas… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spaceflight induces an immune response in astronauts. To better characterize this effect, we
generated single-cell, multi-ome, cell-free RNA (cfRNA), biochemical, and hematology data …

The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) and international astronaut biobank

EG Overbey, JK Kim, BT Tierney, J Park, N Houerbi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Spaceflight induces molecular, cellular and physiological shifts in astronauts and poses
myriad biomedical challenges to the human body, which are becoming increasingly relevant …

Secretome profiling reveals acute changes in oxidative stress, brain homeostasis, and coagulation following short-duration spaceflight

N Houerbi, JK Kim, EG Overbey, R Batra… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
As spaceflight becomes more common with commercial crews, blood-based measures of
crew health can guide both astronaut biomedicine and countermeasures. By profiling …

Biological research and self-driving labs in deep space supported by artificial intelligence

LM Sanders, RT Scott, JH Yang, AA Qutub… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Space biology research aims to understand fundamental spaceflight effects on
organisms, develop foundational knowledge to support deep space exploration and …

[HTML][HTML] Routine omics collection is a golden opportunity for European human research in space and analog environments

H Cope, CRG Willis, MJ MacKay, LA Rutter, LS Toh… - Patterns, 2022 - cell.com
Widespread generation and analysis of omics data have revolutionized molecular medicine
on Earth, yet its power to yield new mechanistic insights and improve occupational health …

One digital health for more FAIRness

O Tamburis, A Benis - Methods of information in medicine, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Background One Digital Health (ODH) aims to propose a framework that merges One
Health's and Digital Health's specific features into an innovative landscape. FAIR (Findable …

Explainable machine learning identifies multi-omics signatures of muscle response to spaceflight in mice

K Li, R Desai, RT Scott, JR Steele, M Machado… - npj …, 2023 - nature.com
The adverse effects of microgravity exposure on mammalian physiology during spaceflight
necessitate a deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms to develop effective …

NASA GeneLab RNA-seq consensus pipeline: standardized processing of short-read RNA-seq data

EG Overbey, AM Saravia-Butler, Z Zhang, KS Rathi… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
With the development of transcriptomic technologies, we are able to quantify precise
changes in gene expression profiles from astronauts and other organisms exposed to …