{"id":100011,"date":"2019-12-22T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T15:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/biosensors-could-save-future-astronauts-before-theyre-in-danger"},"modified":"2019-12-22T07:58:25","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T15:58:25","slug":"biosensors-could-save-future-astronauts-before-theyre-in-danger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/biosensors-could-save-future-astronauts-before-theyre-in-danger","title":{"rendered":"Biosensors could save future astronauts before they\u2019re in danger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anxious Astronaut has suffered an anxiety attack in space. It could be debilitating, they\u2019re not sure. And unlike, say, a broken arm, it is not immediately visible to Anxious\u2019 co-workers. Anxious Astronaut is good at hiding their problem, which is how they got through the screening process on Earth. But Anxious Astronaut needs to be operating at peak functionality, which Anxious Astronaut knows, which is making them more stressed, and they haven\u2019t even acknowledged to themselves that they\u2019re undergoing a silent crisis. Stress is tough.<\/p>\n

Anxious Astronaut does not want to give up their duties, so they\u2019re not taking time to self-evaluate. And besides, any human diagnosis is millions of miles of way, considering Anxious Astronaut and their team are halfway to Mars. So how can Anxious Astronaut\u2019s team figure out what\u2019s wrong? A biosensor. A small, nearly invisible biosensor placed on Anxious Astronaut\u2019s forehead has detected unusually high cortisol, which the body releases when stressed. The data is shared with the medical staff on the mission, and Anxious is able to have their workloads reduced until they\u2019re feeling up to snuff.<\/p>\n

Thanks to developments in biosensors that NASA and outside group NextFlex<\/a> are working on today, Anxious or Unhealthy Astronaut might be able to figure out what\u2019s ailing them at speeds unimaginable today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anxious Astronaut has suffered an anxiety attack in space. It could be debilitating, they\u2019re not sure. And unlike, say, a broken arm, it is not immediately visible to Anxious\u2019 co-workers. Anxious Astronaut is good at hiding their problem, which is how they got through the screening process on Earth. But Anxious Astronaut needs to be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}