{"id":85691,"date":"2018-12-11T03:22:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T11:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/we-finally-have-found-one-part-of-the-human-body-not-damaged"},"modified":"2018-12-11T05:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T13:03:11","slug":"we-finally-have-found-one-part-of-the-human-body-not-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/we-finally-have-found-one-part-of-the-human-body-not-damaged","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Have Found One Part of The Human Body Not Damaged by Space Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-finally-have-found-one-part-of-the-human-body-not-damaged.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being in space can have weird and sometimes harmful effects <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/what-happens-to-the-brain-in-zero-gravity\">on the human body<\/a>, and we\u2019ll have to work through those issues if we\u2019re to make it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/nasa-just-heard-the-haunting-sound-of-dust-devils-tearing-across-mars\">out to Mars<\/a> and beyond, and stay healthy.<\/p>\n<p>But it looks like we have finally found one feature of the human body that\u2019s untroubled by microgravity \u2014 and it\u2019s a part of our all-important immune system.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a study of blood samples from International Space Station (ISS) crew members, a few months in space don\u2019t affect <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B_cell\">B-cell immunity<\/a> \u2014 the number of white blood cells in our bodies ready to fight off infection by producing antibodies.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-found-one-part-of-the-human-body-not-damaged-by-space-travel\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-found-one-part-...ace-travel<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in space can have weird and sometimes harmful effects on the human body, and we\u2019ll have to work through those issues if we\u2019re to make it out to Mars and beyond, and stay healthy. But it looks like we have finally found one feature of the human body that\u2019s untroubled by microgravity \u2014 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85691","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\/85691","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=85691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85701,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85691\/revisions\/85701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}