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Fundamental Biological Features of Spaceflight: Advancing the Field to Enable Deep-Space Exploration

Ebrahim Afshinnekoo1, Ryan T Scott2, Matthew J MacKay1

  • 1Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA.

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|November 26, 2020
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Keywords:
DNA damageaerospace medicineepigeneticmicrobiomemitochondriamulti-omicsoxidative stressspace biologyspaceflighttelomere

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