NASA GeneLab

🧓👨🚀 New research is filling in gaps about how spaceflight factors may lead to #frailty-like conditions in #space...and what we can do about that, to help protect #astronaut health! Find out more from this new publication that used 9 #OSDR datasets. ⚕️🚀 🔖tinyurl.com/pub-frail

📢 Missed the first "Meet the Authors" event on Oct 3? Not to worry, you can catch up at your convenience by watching the recorded session. Stay tuned for the second installment in Jan 2025 - hear the author's insights, ask questions, and connect! 📽️ Watch: https://lnkd.in/gEWc4HGH

🌌 Discover more secrets of plants in space! Watch this new GeneLab Chats video on the fascinating findings from PhD candidate Gbolaga Olanrewaju's study of how Arabidopsis seedlings adapt to the challenges of spaceflight. 🚀🌿 #PlantsinSpace #OSDR 🎙️ https://lnkd.in/gT4nFApi

📣 #OSDR has new management! Sylvain Costes has taken a new role as the Science Data Officer within NASA's Biological and Physical Sciences Division. Samrawit Gebre Gebre is the new Project Manager, while Danielle Lopez will serve as the Deputy Project Manager. Join me in congratulating Sylvain, Sam, and Danielle! 🌐 Read more: https://lnkd.in/gAGAJ76m

🩺♀️ Spaceflight changes hormones like insulin and estrogen. 🚀🧬 Check out this #OSDR-enabled publication to learn about implications on women's health both on Earth and for longer duration space conditions! #SpaceHealth #WomensHealth #AstronautScience 🌐 tinyurl.com/soma-estro

Interested in learning more about how to use OSDR visualization and RadLab portals? Want to know more about the submission process and OSDR workspace? Then check out the re-vamped tutorials page on the #OSDR website. #learning 🌐 https://lnkd.in/gfKUAqeF

📣 The ESA #SpaceOmics #Hackathon brought together 10 teams to tackle challenges like "Reproducibility in space omics" using NASA #OSDR data! The top 3 teams will present their solutions on October 17 at 17:00 CET—don't miss it! More info here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gYWeBVfC. #OpenScience

🌌 Hear about Fiona's first steps into space biology, and how #GL4HS summer training program helped enable her team's research article on fruit fly genes affected by spaceflight in #GravitationalSpaceResearch. #OSDR #AgingResearch #ASGSR 🎙️tinyurl.com/OSDR-Fiona

We are honored to share that the NASA Open Science Data Repository (OSDR) team participated in the October 4th meeting hosted by the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. The event featured NASA Ames Research Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, the White House Cancer Moonshot Initiative (Biden Cancer Initiative), other University of California representatives-researchers, and State of California officials (🔗 https://lnkd.in/gyRFKdMh). The day was focused on exploring how space biomedical research can advance cancer research. Pediatric and adult cancer patients met NASA astronauts, NASA Johnson Space Center Director Vanessa Wyche, and Flight Surgeon Josef Schmid. The day’s attendees enjoyed a video down link from astronauts aboard the International Space Station.   Six members of the OSDR (🔗 https://www.nasa.gov/osdr/) team participated along with Ames Space Biosciences Division leadership. Presentations from Eugene Tu, Director of NASA Ames, and Sylvain Costes, NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Data Officer, highlighted OSDR’s access to quality and machine-readable spaceflight life sciences data, analytical tools, and AI-based discovery tools. UCSF Professor Sergio Baranzini highlighted the existing UCSF-NASA collaboration integrating OSDR with the knowledge graph platform ‘SPOKE’ (Scalable Precision Medicine Open Knowledge Engine; 🔗https://spoke.ucsf.edu/), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). A keynote by UCSF Professor and Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn was particularly inspiring, discussing telomeres and she excitedly mentioned her interest in analyzing OSDR data. She noted the significance of telomere elongation in space, a phenomenon recently reported in part by the Analysis Working Group (AWG🔗 https://awg.osdr.space/) around OSDR in the Inspiration4 2024 Nature Portfolio package (🔗 https://lnkd.in/ebmXKTUk), and the 2020 Cell Press package (🔗 https://lnkd.in/gFfqRD2M), demonstrating that such elongation can occur within just a few days in space. In the afternoon, UCSF and UC researchers engaged in scientific roundtable sessions with NASA experts to discuss future collaborations, showing strong interest in OSDR’s data-metadata standards, access to biospecimens from NASA’s Biological Institutional Scientific Collection, and joining the ~800-member AWG around OSDR.

🚀 New research shows miRNA-based countermeasures can reduce inflammation, DNA damage, & rescue mitochondria exposed to deep space radiation! Check out the article to learn how we’re a step closer to protecting astronauts on long spaceflights. 🌌 📰 tinyurl.com/osdr-mirna