![]() ![]() ![]() The crew will need to be highly self-sufficient or “autonomous” during that multi-year journey to and from the red planet. Personalized medicine also applies to enabling future space exploration missions, such as an expedition to Mars, by making such a multi-year journey much safer. The Twins Study that involves the identical twin Kelly brothers, who happen to also be astronauts, is a pilot demonstration project that will collect and analyze integrated omics data – thereby laying the foundations for such a personalized or precision medicine approach. NASA and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute ( NSBRI) have the long-term goal of employing this personalized approach to mitigate the significant health risks that astronauts will face during deep space exploration missions. This strategy of using genetic profiling to inform individualized treatments has become quite mainstream in the best cancer hospitals and leading medical schools. By obtaining and analyzing your genome, doctors can detect and characterize your individual genetic variants – and prescribe precision or personalized treatments accordingly. This approach views you as distinct from any other patient, and as such you receive care based on your unique genome. At a high level, it means that when you visit your doctor(s), they examine you and determine the best drug or therapeutic intervention based on your individual health and biomolecular profile, rather than what usually works for the general population. #Deep therapy aloft series#In today’s A Lab Aloft, Graham Scott, Ph.D., completes his two-part series looking at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute’s (NSBRI’s) and NASA’s Twins Study that is conducting biomedical research on a pair of identical twin brothers, who are both astronauts.Īs you may recall from part one of this blog, personalized medicine involves the application of many sophisticated molecular and bioinformatics techniques. ![]()
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