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MEDICINE: SCIENTISTS DISCOVER WHY SPACE TRAVEL WEAKENS ASTRONAUTS' IMMUNE SYSTEMS

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August 2023

Astronauts routinely break out in rashes or get ill while aboard the International Space Station. Now we know why

MEDICINE: SCIENTISTS DISCOVER WHY SPACE TRAVEL WEAKENS ASTRONAUTS' IMMUNE SYSTEMS

A new study shows that space travel changes how the genes in our white blood cells work, preventing them from recognising and combating infections.

"These results are important considerations of the risks to health during spaceflight and space exploration," Myles Harris, coordinator of the Space Health Risks Research Group at University College London, who was not involved in the study, told BBC Science Focus.

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