{"id":201826,"date":"2024-12-18T02:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/brain-cells-mature-faster-in-space-but-stay-healthy-iss-study"},"modified":"2024-12-18T02:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T08:14:33","slug":"brain-cells-mature-faster-in-space-but-stay-healthy-iss-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/brain-cells-mature-faster-in-space-but-stay-healthy-iss-study","title":{"rendered":"Brain cells mature faster in space but stay healthy: ISS study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brain-cells-mature-faster-in-space-but-stay-healthy-iss-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cognition, but little is known about its specific impact on the brain. To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, Scripps Research scientists, in collaboration with the New York Stem Cell Foundation, sent tiny clumps of stem-cell derived brain cells called \u201corganoids\u201d to the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, the organoids were still healthy when they returned from orbit a month later, but the cells had matured faster compared to identical organoids grown on Earth\u2014they were closer to becoming adult neurons and were beginning to show signs of specialization. The results, which could shed light on potential neurological effects of space travel, <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/stcltm\/article\/13\/12\/1186\/7833382\" target=\"_blank\">appear<\/a> in Stem Cells Translational Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that these cells survived in space was a big surprise,\u201d says co-senior author Jeanne Loring, Ph.D., professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Medicine and founding director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Scripps Research. \u201cThis lays the groundwork for future experiments in space, in which we can include other parts of the brain that are affected by neurodegenerative disease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cognition, but little is known about its specific impact on the brain. To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity, Scripps Research scientists, in collaboration with the New York Stem Cell Foundation, sent tiny clumps of stem-cell derived brain cells called \u201corganoids\u201d to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201826","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}