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 …

[PDF][PDF] Protective alleles and precision healthcare in crewed spaceflight

LA Rutter, MJ MacKay, H Cope, NJ Szewczyk… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Common and rare alleles are now being annotated across millions of human genomes, and
omics technologies are increasingly being used to develop health and treatment …

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 …

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 …

Longitudinal multi-omics analysis of host microbiome architecture and immune responses during short-term spaceflight

BT Tierney, JK Kim, EG Overbey, KA Ryon, J Foox… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Maintenance of astronaut health during spaceflight will require monitoring and potentially
modulating their microbiomes. However, documenting microbial shifts during spaceflight has …

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 …

Direct RNA sequencing of astronaut blood reveals spaceflight-associated m6A increases and hematopoietic transcriptional responses

K Grigorev, TM Nelson, EG Overbey, N Houerbi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The advent of civilian spaceflight challenges scientists to precisely describe the effects of
spaceflight on human physiology, particularly at the molecular and cellular level. Newer …

Spaceflight induces changes in gene expression profiles linked to insulin and estrogen

BA Mathyk, M Tabetah, R Karim, V Zaksas… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Organismal adaptations to spaceflight have been characterized at the molecular level in
model organisms, including Drosophila and C. elegans. Here, we extend molecular work to …

Spatiotemporal expression and control of haemoglobin in space

J Borg, C Loy, JK Kim, A Buhagiar, C Chin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
It is now widely recognised that the environment in space activates a diverse set of genes
involved in regulating fundamental cellular pathways. This includes the activation of genes …

Genome and clonal hematopoiesis stability contrasts with immune, cfDNA, mitochondrial, and telomere length changes during short duration spaceflight

JS Garcia-Medina, K Sienkiewicz… - Precision Clinical …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background The Inspiration4 (I4) mission, the first all-civilian orbital flight mission,
investigated the physiological effects of short-duration spaceflight through a multi-omic …