Joseph Borg

Jul 29, 2024 | lexology.com | Joseph Borg

A significant development in the gaming industry of the United Arab Emirates is the issuance of its first legitimate national lottery licence. The Game LLC, which will do business as “UAE Lottery”, was granted a licence by the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority (GCGRA).

Jun 11, 2024 | nature.com | Christopher Mason |James Green |Jordan Baechle |Mathias Basner |Susan Bailey |Joseph Borg | +34 more

AbstractThe recent acceleration of commercial, private and multi-national spaceflight has created an unprecedented level of activity in low Earth orbit, concomitant with the largest-ever number of crewed missions entering space and preparations for exploration-class (lasting longer than one year) missions. Such rapid advancement into space from many new companies, countries and space-related entities has enabled a ‘second space age’.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | Jean Calleja-Agius |Joseph Borg |JangKeun Kim |Caroline Coffey |Nathaniel J. Szewczyk |Christopher Mason | +5 more

AbstractMounting ambitions and capabilities for public and private, non-government sector crewed space exploration bring with them an increasingly diverse set of space travelers, raising new and nontrivial ethical, legal, and medical policy and practice concerns which are still relatively underexplored.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | JangKeun Kim |Eliah G. Overbey |Deena Najjar |Jiwoon Park |Cem Meydan |Joseph Borg | +3 more

AbstractMaintenance of astronaut health during spaceflight will require monitoring and potentially modulating their microbiomes. However, documenting microbial shifts during spaceflight has been difficult due to mission constraints that lead to limited sampling and profiling. Here we executed a six-month longitudinal study to quantify the high-resolution human microbiome response to three days in orbit for four individuals.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | Begum Mathyk |Marshall Tabetah |Rashid Karim |Victoria Zaksas |JangKeun Kim |Jiwoon Park | +6 more

AbstractOrganismal adaptations to spaceflight have been characterized at the molecular level in model organisms, including Drosophila and C. elegans. Here, we extend molecular work to energy metabolism and sex hormone signaling in mice and humans. We found spaceflight induced changes in insulin and estrogen signaling in rodents and humans.