Nathaniel J. Szewczyk

Jul 22, 2024 | nature.com | Lindsay Rutter |Henry Cope |Nathaniel J. Szewczyk |JangKeun Kim |Eliah G. Overbey |Braden T. Tierney | +4 more

AbstractCommon and rare alleles are now being annotated across millions of human genomes, and omics technologies are increasingly being used to develop health and treatment recommendations. However, these alleles have not yet been systematically characterized relative to aerospace medicine. Here, we review published alleles naturally found in human cohorts that have a likely protective effect, which is linked to decreased cancer risk and improved bone, muscular, and cardiovascular health.

Jun 11, 2024 | nature.com | Henry Cope |Jonas Elsborg |Samuel Demharter |J. McDonald |Chiara Wernecke |Sigrid S. Reinsch | +11 more

AbstractSpaceflight poses a unique set of challenges to humans and the hostile spaceflight environment can induce a wide range of increased health risks, including dermatological issues. The biology driving the frequency of skin issues in astronauts is currently not well understood.

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 | Begum Mathyk |Alexander Quaas |Fathi Karouia |Nicolas Nelson |Ozlem Guzeloglu-Kayisli |Lauren Sanders | +12 more

AbstractAs the space industry grows exponentially and aspirations for space travel expand, we are entering a new era where we will very likely become an interplanetary species. Although reproduction is an essential human function and necessary for species survival, we have remarkably little knowledge regarding the impact of space travel on the female reproductive system.

Jun 10, 2024 | nature.com | Henry Cope |Raúl Herranz |Sergey Ponomarev |Sylvain V Costes |Deanne Taylor |Daniela Bezdan | +3 more

AbstractFuture multi-year crewed planetary missions will motivate advances in aerospace nutrition and telehealth. On Earth, the Human Cell Atlas project aims to spatially map all cell types in the human body. Here, we propose that a parallel Human Cell Space Atlas could serve as an openly available, global resource for space life science research. As humanity becomes increasingly spacefaring, high-resolution omics on orbit could permit an advent of precision spaceflight healthcare.