3-D Printable Tools May Help Study Astronaut Health
NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) crew member, Matthias Maurer of ESA, works on inserting samples into the MinION DNA sequencer as part of the Biomolecule Sequencer experiment. Researchers tested the device aboard the analog to minimize unknowns and see how the device worked in various extreme environments.
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If humans are destined for deep space, they need to understand the space environment changes health, including aging and antibiotic resistance.
A new NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration project could help. It aims to develop technology used to study “omics” — fields of microbiology that are important to human health. Omics includes research into genomes, microbiomes and proteomes.