{"id":221663,"date":"2025-09-10T08:02:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/spaceflight-activates-dark-genome-in-human-cells-researcher-says"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T13:02:43","slug":"spaceflight-activates-dark-genome-in-human-cells-researcher-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/spaceflight-activates-dark-genome-in-human-cells-researcher-says","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight activates \u2018dark genome\u2019 in human cells, researcher says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spaceflight-activates-dark-genome-in-human-cells-researcher-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists\u2019 understanding of the potential effects of space exploration on the human body.<\/p>\n<p>Stem cells are found throughout the body, and they can make more of themselves or turn into other specialized cells \u2014 including blood, brain or bone cells \u2014 for maintenance and repair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn space, stem cells decline in function,\u201d said lead study author Catriona Jamieson, director of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. \u201cThey actually reduce their ability to renew themselves or regenerate, and that\u2019s an important thing to be able to know for long-term space missions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceflight makes certain human stem cells age faster, a new study has found, furthering scientists\u2019 understanding of the potential effects of space exploration on the human body. Stem cells are found throughout the body, and they can make more of themselves or turn into other specialized cells \u2014 including blood, brain or bone cells \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221663","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}