{"id":166182,"date":"2023-06-22T02:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/space-travel-alters-gene-expression-making-astronauts-susceptible-to-infections"},"modified":"2023-06-22T02:25:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:25:45","slug":"space-travel-alters-gene-expression-making-astronauts-susceptible-to-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/space-travel-alters-gene-expression-making-astronauts-susceptible-to-infections","title":{"rendered":"Space travel alters gene expression, making astronauts susceptible to infections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-travel-alters-gene-expression-making-astronauts-susceptible-to-infections2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study shows how space travel may modify the gene expression in white blood cells (WBCs), which fight infections.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Earth, a less gravity environment poses a significant risk to the health of astronauts, particularly during longer-duration missions.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding how the human body reacts to the space environment is crucial for the long term and designing countermeasures to protect astronauts\u2019 health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows how space travel may modify the gene expression in white blood cells (WBCs), which fight infections. Beyond Earth, a less gravity environment poses a significant risk to the health of astronauts, particularly during longer-duration missions. Understanding how the human body reacts to the space environment is crucial for the long term [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166182","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}