{"id":88737,"date":"2019-03-17T19:42:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spaceflight-found-to-reactivate-dormant-viruses-in-astronauts"},"modified":"2019-03-17T19:42:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:42:23","slug":"spaceflight-found-to-reactivate-dormant-viruses-in-astronauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/spaceflight-found-to-reactivate-dormant-viruses-in-astronauts","title":{"rendered":"Spaceflight found to reactivate dormant viruses in astronauts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spaceflight-found-to-reactivate-dormant-viruses-in-astronauts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are certainly a whole host of technological hurdles to overcome before humans successfully travel to Mars, or beyond, but research is also pointing to a growing assortment of fundamental health challenges that astronauts may face from long stretches of time in space. A recent NASA-funded study has found dormant viruses can reactivate in the human body during spaceflight, presenting yet another physiological problem for scientists to solve before we journey out into deep space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/virus-activate-immune-astronaut-space-travel-nasa\/58892\/\">https:\/\/newatlas.com\/virus-activate-immune-astronaut-space-travel-nasa\/58892\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certainly a whole host of technological hurdles to overcome before humans successfully travel to Mars, or beyond, but research is also pointing to a growing assortment of fundamental health challenges that astronauts may face from long stretches of time in space. A recent NASA-funded study has found dormant viruses can reactivate in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88737","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=88737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}