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Scientists Release Largest Trove of Data on How Space Travel Affects the Human Body
Smithsonian Magazine· 3 days agoSeveral missions in 2021 took private citizens on tourist flights. Last month, six people flew to...
Missing mom ID’d 40 years after her body was found in the Columbia River in Tri-Cities
Tri-City Herald· 3 days agoPatricia Kay Rodriguez stopped at a Yakima restaurant on her way to work in 1983 and was never seen again. Now, with the help of DNA testing, they know her body turned up ...
PRDX6 augments selenium utilization to limit iron toxicity and ferroptosis - Nature Structural &...
Nature· 4 days agoThe authors identified PRDX6 as a novel selenoprotein synthesis factor performing an iron-induced ferroptosis screen. They reveal that PRDX6 greatly facilitates selenium utilization for selenoprotein synthesis by acting as a selenide carrier protein.
How a few days in space can disrupt a person’s biology
Nature· 5 days agoTrove of health data from space tourists and astronauts reveals the effects of microgravity,...
Empire Records' Johnny Whitworth offers a satisfyingly retro take on the mad scientist in The...
Popverse· 4 days agoWarning: This article contains major spoilers for The A-Frame. This week at Tribeca Film Festival...
PlayStation’s ‘Lego Horizon Adventures’ Somehow Just Makes Sense
Forbes· 3 days agoIt’s the bizarre mashup we’re getting this Holiday season but didn’t know we wanted: Lego Horizon...
With, not on: Reimagining autism in research | Newswise
Newswise· 4 days agoIn the past six months, Laura Hetrick has spoken to more researchers than she has in her last 14 years at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “The last thing an autistic person wants ...
Age is just a number: Immune cell 'epigenetic clock' ticks independently of organism lifespan
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoScientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Minnesota investigated the unique 'epigenetic clock' of T cell aging, demonstrating that T cells can outlive an organism ...
Age is just a number: Immune cell 'epigenetic clock' ticks independently of organism lifespan
Science Daily· 4 days agoWhile most cell types experience a functional decline after years of proliferation and replication, T cells can proliferate seemingly indefinitely and without detriment. Scientists at St. Jude ...
Commercial astronauts shed light on flights' health impacts and create spaceflight atlas
Medical Xpress· 4 days agoDr. Christopher Mason, the WorldQuant Professor of Genomics and Computational Biomedicine at Weill...