{"id":201922,"date":"2024-12-19T13:12:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/astronaut-on-a-chip-multi-organ-tissue-chips-simulate-space-radiations-impact-on-human-health"},"modified":"2024-12-19T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:12:47","slug":"astronaut-on-a-chip-multi-organ-tissue-chips-simulate-space-radiations-impact-on-human-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/astronaut-on-a-chip-multi-organ-tissue-chips-simulate-space-radiations-impact-on-human-health","title":{"rendered":"Astronaut-on-a-chip: Multi-organ tissue chips simulate space radiation\u2019s impact on human health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronaut-on-a-chip-multi-organ-tissue-chips-simulate-space-radiations-impact-on-human-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As astronauts venture further into space, their exposure to harmful radiation rises. Researchers from Columbia University are simulating the effects of space radiation here on Earth to determine its impact on human physiology using multi-organ tissue chips. Their work documents the differential effects seen in tissues after acute and prolonged radiation exposure and identifies multiple genes of interest that could help inform the development of future radioprotective agents.<\/p>\n<p>Their study <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/advs.202401415\" target=\"_blank\">appears<\/a> in Advanced Science.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs deep space exploration continues to unfold, it is vital to understand the physiological damage caused by space radiation to better mitigate its effects. By exposing multi-organ models to simulated cosmic radiation, this study has laid the groundwork to aid in this effort,\u201d commented Jermont Chen, Ph.D., a program director in the Division of Discovery Science and Technology at NIBIB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As astronauts venture further into space, their exposure to harmful radiation rises. Researchers from Columbia University are simulating the effects of space radiation here on Earth to determine its impact on human physiology using multi-organ tissue chips. Their work documents the differential effects seen in tissues after acute and prolonged radiation exposure and identifies multiple [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201922","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}