A second space age spanning omics, platforms and medicine across orbits

CE Mason, J Green, KI Adamopoulos, EE Afshin… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The recent acceleration of commercial, private and multi-national spaceflight has created an
unprecedented level of activity in low Earth orbit, concomitant with the largest-ever number …

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 …

Hemolysis contributes to anemia during long-duration space flight

G Trudel, N Shahin, T Ramsay, O Laneuville… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Anemia in astronauts has been noted since the first space missions, but the mechanisms
contributing to anemia in space flight have remained unclear. Here, we show that space …

Spatial multi-omics of human skin reveals KRAS and inflammatory responses to spaceflight

J Park, EG Overbey, SA Narayanan, JK Kim… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spaceflight can change metabolic, immunological, and biological homeostasis and cause
skin rashes and irritation, yet the molecular basis remains unclear. To investigate the impact …

Noise-boosted weak signal detection in fractional nonlinear systems enhanced by increasing potential-well width and its application to mechanical fault diagnosis

Z Qiao, Y He, C Liao, R Zhu - Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2023 - Elsevier
Noise is seen as the annoying something for weak signal detection, but noise is beneficial to
enhance weak signals of interest embedded in noise in nonlinear systems. Moreover, the …

Collection of biospecimens from the inspiration4 mission establishes the standards for the space omics and medical atlas (SOMA)

EG Overbey, K Ryon, JK Kim, BT Tierney… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission provided a unique opportunity to study the impact
of spaceflight on the human body. Biospecimen samples were collected from four crew …

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 …