(NewsNation) — Traveling to space can take a toll on the human body, and new research shows it can also speed up the aging of blood and immune cells. In the study published in the journal Cell Stem ...

Researchers from University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), which ...

Astronauts on a 9-day space mission showed 2 years of biological age increase, but within 24 hours of returning to Earth, markers reversed.

Traveling to space is brutal on the body. Spaceflight can cause astronauts’ bones to lose density, their brain and eye nerves to swell, and their genes to change expression. Research suggests spending ...

Researchers from University of California San Diego Sanford Stem Cell Institute have discovered that spaceflight accelerates the aging of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), which ...

Humanity has never been fully satisfied with this side of the horizon. Our ancestors crested mountains and crossed oceans until our species filled every corner of the world. We invented machines for ...

How does long-duration space missions influence human stem cells? This is what a recent study published in Cell Stem Cell hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how human spaceflight ...

Recently, a new phenomenon related to stem cell aging was observed in a study at the Sanford Stem Cell Research Institute in UC San Diego (UCSD). The research team found that the microgravity and ...

Traveling to space is brutal on the body. NASA’s pioneering study of the identical twin astronauts Mark and Scott Kelly tracked signals of aging in both men while Mark remained on Earth and Scott ...

Scientists working with NASA have discovered evidence that human stem cells undergo accelerated aging when exposed to the rigors of spaceflight. The main culprits seem to be microgravity and cosmic ...