Background: With renewed interest in long-duration space missions, there is growing exploration into synthetic torpor as a countermeasure to mitigate physiological stressors. Sedative agents, particularly those used in clinical anesthesia, […]
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Status Update Of NASA’s Assessment Of The Biological Contamination Threat Of Crewed Mars Surface Missions
As we prepare for a future first mission to Mars with a human crew, the United States, under the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, has an obligation to protect against […]
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The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) and International Astronaut Biobank
Spaceflight induces molecular, cellular and physiological shifts in astronauts and poses myriad biomedical challenges to the human body, which are becoming increasingly relevant as more humans venture into space.