iScience (Sep 2022)

Building the Space Omics Topical Team to boost European space researchers’ role in the international consortia redefining spaceflight-generated datasets

  • Raúl Herranz,
  • Willian da Silveira,
  • Daniela Bezdan,
  • Stefania Giacomello,
  • Nathaniel Szewczyk

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 9
p. 104868

Abstract

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In a broadening and more competitive space exploration landscape, playing at scale is necessary to obtain results. European researchers share their lessons learned on growing a research program where omics techniques can feed new knowledge, both fundamental and practical, for space exploration. Sending people to new space destinations will require interdisciplinary research centered around omics and personalized medicine, with added constraints of low-gravity and high-radiation environments.